Another BBCA gem - The Thick of It - Terrific show

elfin

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Sat May-13-06 09:09 PM
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Another BBCA gem - The Thick of It - Terrific show

Saw it last night and TIVOed rest of episodes - May16 - 10 CST, 19th - 8 CST, 20th - 12am CST, 23rd - 10 CST.

Don't know if any are repeats, but first show was brilliant. Mockumentary about cabinet secretaries in Great Britain - backbiting, panic spinning and with the dry wit I love.

Has received well deserved excellent reviews.

Anyone else catch it?

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dmr4567

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Sat May-13-06 09:16 PM
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1. Love dry wit

I'm set to record I've not heard of this show so thanks for the info

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elfin

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Sat May-13-06 09:26 PM
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2. Happy to oblige

Make sure you set the right time for your zone.

Hope you enjoy it and welcome to DU.

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Bryan

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Sat May-13-06 09:48 PM
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3. Oh yeah. Fabulous stuff.

It was created and written by Armando Iannucci, who is, in some ways, sort of the UK equivalent of Jon Stewart; in addition to working on the Alan Partridge series, he's done a number of satirical fake-newscast programs for the BBC. Here's an interesting interview he gave about The Thick of It and other topics:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/iannucci/index2.shtml

Q. Who do you feel is the most ridiculous public figure right now?

For me it's still Donald Rumsfeld. How he never thought it would look bad to have letters of condolence to families of killed servicemen signed by a machine, I'll never know.

Blair is also as weird as I've always thought him to be. 'I only know what I believe.' That's the exact same argument used by The Taliban.

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