Stephen Fry and John Bird return as masters of spin Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe in a new six-part series of Mark Tavener ' s comedy. 1: It seems that the country is bored with New Labour, so Charles takes the commission to revive interest in the party. Martin, however, has his own boredom problem and is missing the days when Prentiss McCabe was a struggling pair of twisted charlatans. With Siobhan Hayes , Tony Gardner , Beth Chalmers , Sue Elliott-Nicholls , Terence Edmond and Kenny Blyth. Executive Producer Paul Schlesinger Producer Dawn Ellis