The Thick of It

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Dark political comedy set in the corridors of British government

Dark political comedy set in the corridors of British government, created by Armando Iannucci and starring Peter Capaldi

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Peter Capaldi

Chris Addison

James Smith

Joanna Scanlan

Rebecca Front

Polly Kemp

Peter Sullivan

Alex Lowe

Judith Faultless

Zoe Telford

Ian Martin

Jesse Armstrong

Roger Drew

Will Smith

Sean Gray

Simon Blackwell

Tony Roche

Adam Tandy

Armando Iannucci

The Thick of It: Series 3: Episode 2

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Episode 2

BBC Two - The Thick of It, Series 3, Episode 2

Nicola faces a crisis when someone wipes the immigration records of 170,672 people.

Political comedy. Nicola has only been in the cabinet for a week, but already the press question her survival chances. Then someone wipes the immigration records of 170,672 people.

The return of Armando Iannucci's political comedy.

Nicola Murray MP has only been secretary of state for just over a week, but already there is press speculation on how long she will last. And now someone at the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship has completely wiped the immigration records of 170,672 people.

Who's going to get the blame? Who's going to get the job of breaking the news to Malcolm? And how is Nicola going to get through an entire lunch with the staff of the Guardian without revealing the catastrophic scale of the latest computer disaster?

The Thick of It: Series 3

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Dark political satire from Armando Iannucci set in the corridors of British government.

Dark political satire from Armando Iannucci set in the corridors of British government, with Nicola Murray (Rebecca Front) taking over the ministerial role nobody seems to want.

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