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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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The Thick of It: Series 4

Roger Allam

Will Smith

Joanna Scanlan

Geoffrey Streatfeild

Ben Willbond

James Smith

Vincent Franklin

Olivia Poulet

Dave Florez

Hamza Jeetoa

Jessica Henwick

Manjinder Virk

Gareth Tunley

Adam Tandy

Dan Mersh

Martha Cope

Tom Andrews

Simon Blackwell

Tony Roche

David Quantick

Roger Drew

Sean Gray

Armando Iannucci

Dan Gaster

Ian Martin

Natalie Bailey

The Thick of It: Series 4: Episode 1

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Episode 1

Series 4

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Peter Mannion gets told to launch his coalition partner's new policy at a school.

Political satire. Peter Mannion is told to launch his coalition partner's new 'Networked Nation' policy. However, Peter doesn't even know how to right-click a mouse.

Peter Mannion, the Secretary of State for Social Affairs, is told to launch his coalition partner Fergus's new 'Networked Nation' policy at a school. Peter doesn't even know how to right-click a mouse and would rather be celebrating his wedding anniversary, but Stewart Pearson won't hear otherwise. So Fergus is left in charge of drawing up a list of staff redundancies, and Terri Coverley is pretty sure she can make Fergus's hit list if she works hard at under-performing, and finds help from an unexpected direction.

Peter's policy launch is a disaster, and the disaster recovery plan is even more of a disaster.

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More government embarrassment, coalition rows, policy U-turns and frantic spin-doctoring.										


More government embarrassment, coalition rows, policy U-turns and frantic spin-doctoring in Armando Iannucci's masterful political satire.					

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