Roger Allam rules, of course. You know that Dad's Army episode where Capt. Mainwaring's long lost brother shows up and he's a disreputable drunk? I reckon TTOI could do the same with Peter Mannion and get Christopher Hitchens to play his brother.
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 May 2010 11:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
ha
if IA wanted to upset people (he should) then a show about internal lib dem-tory politics would be just the ticket
feel like they've 'done' the other lot enough, though obviously you can't not have tucker
lid dems are so colourless, though, not sure how to 'do' them
― English: The Money Woman (history mayne), Thursday, 27 May 2010 11:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
IA = AI = armando iannucci
― English: The Money Woman (history mayne), Thursday, 27 May 2010 12:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
AI = Lib Dem supporter
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 May 2010 12:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
late to the party & i've just watched this over the past few weeks after catching snippets of episodes on TV and thinking "i don't like this" or "i'm over this sort of thing" but i was just wide-eyed with amazement through most of it, esp. the specials.
it took me a while to get through each ep because i had to rewind and watch sections over either because i couldn't believe what i had just heard or because i loved what i had just heard and had to hear it again.
glen is amazing, would actually like more of him, not less. julius is really astonishing though, a headfuck of a performance, it's incredible what he does in each brief scene he has. capaldi, well, it goes without saying how good he is. but he really really is.
― jed_, Thursday, 27 May 2010 12:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
Shame they've already got Julius because he's be a perfect LibDem. They don't really have a Campbell/Coulson figure though.
― The Men Who Stare At Goatse (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 May 2010 13:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
There's a great out-take from the Malcolm Punches Glenn episode where Tucker's running off to urgently prevent something and a guy stops him and goes "you're live on the Times Online vodcast, is there anything you'd like to say to the people?"
this is great, probably the best episode of that series
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 29 May 2010 00:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
"did you have a nice poofmas?"
― jed_, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 02:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
Aiannucci Quiet day on Twitter from me. We're writing a Thick of It book at the moment. Should be out later in the year. All new material.
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 10 June 2010 14:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/10/yes-in-the-loop-writers-get-an-hbo-show.html
Good news for In the Loop superfans: Simon Blackwell and Armando Iannucci will write Veep, a new political comedy show from HBO that may star Julia Louis-Dreyfus. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Veep “follows a female senator who becomes vice president of the United States and finds the job is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned about.” Terrific! We can now scratch the Blackwell-Iannucci-HBO-Louis-Dreyfus collaboration off our list of fantasy creative alliances, below.
― max, Friday, 29 October 2010 19:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
oO
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/11/gears-of-comedy-total-pussy-test-drives-monster-military-hardware/
― caek, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
lawl
― idgi fridays (blueski), Monday, 20 December 2010 12:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
haaa... love this show.
we are in a prison drama. this is like the shawshank redemption, only with more tunneling through shit and no fucking redemption.
― another al3x, Monday, 20 December 2010 13:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
I just caught Peter Capaldi being a Wise Man on BBC's 'The Nativity' - kept expecting him to swear.
― Insane Clown 2 Electric Juggalo (onimo), Monday, 20 December 2010 19:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
I noticed he was going for the Sean Connery school of Scottish accent acting.
― ailsa, Monday, 20 December 2010 19:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
he seems like a chill person irl
i guess that's what acting's about
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 December 2010 20:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
I read a thing where he claimed to never swear IRL as well. Malc must be deeply cathartic for him.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Monday, 20 December 2010 20:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
In answer to all those who've been asking, a new series of The Thick of It is commissioned and work begins on scripts next month.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 24 March 2011 09:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
hope they make hollander a reg
the steve hilton guy is hilares too
#excited
― BIG GERTRUDE aka the steindriver (history mayne), Thursday, 24 March 2011 09:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
ya
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Thursday, 24 March 2011 11:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
so HBO has picked up iannucci's "veep," wherein julia louis-dreyfus stars as a senator who becomes vice-president
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Sunday, 17 April 2011 21:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
looking forward to that. love armando and really like julia louis-dreyfus. also she's really good looking for a woman that must be about 50.
― tending tropics (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 17 April 2011 21:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
loved 'in the loop' when i saw it but only a recent convert to 'the thick of it' proper. 'KNOWLEDGE IS PORRIDGE'! god that made me laugh like a simpleton.
― 'australian lack of style' (haitch), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 06:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
one thing I found interesting about "In the Loop" was how the American characters seemed a lot more appealing than the British ones, in that most of them seemed to be doing things for principled reasons (albeit crazy principled reasons in the case of the hand grenade guy), while the British characters were mostly stupid and just going with whatever seemed to be the flow.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
think you might have been watching "ILX" by accident
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha
― caek, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
british characters were mostly cynical/self interested, tbh, rather than stupid
― Juata Man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 15:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well the Minister who goes to America and his assistant are not exactly shining lights in the brain department.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 09:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Are the new specials ever coming out or do they have to keep frantically rewriting them every time some new bombshell hits British politics?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 09:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
most of them seemed to be doing things for principled reasons
doesn't gandolfini end up on the line of "and in the end i decided that ACTUALLY the MOST principled thing when you think about it is to NOT resign"
― thomp, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 10:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah what is the situash with the new episodes?
― caek, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 11:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ianucci's been making the US version instead of being in the UK writing anything AFAIK
― rude ragga beats from the F. U. Schnickens (sic), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 11:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
tho he's said he's really glad abt the delay bcz it means they get to do the coalition govt now
veep starts 22 april on hbo and presumably around the same time on sky atlantic
― caek, Friday, 13 January 2012 15:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
sitting down to watch this properly and in order over weekend.
― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 12:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just re-watched all but the last season over the last week or so. Its been interesting to watch Malcolm become less of a caricature over time.
― give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 14:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
7 new eps written
http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/news/a382383/armando-iannucci-weve-written-seven-new-thick-of-it-episodes.html
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Saturday, 19 May 2012 22:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Armando Giovanni Iannucci OBE
― jed_, Saturday, 16 June 2012 12:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
ugh
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Saturday, 16 June 2012 13:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
don't they give these trinkets to every member of the british entertainment industry who (often after a long domestic career) has some success in america
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Saturday, 16 June 2012 13:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
― She Got the Shakes, Saturday, 16 June 2012 13:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
a+
― blossom smulch (schlump), Saturday, 16 June 2012 14:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ouch. I think Campbell's right about this in this case, but maybe he should have let someone else do the dirty work. Something I thought he'd be good at.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Saturday, 16 June 2012 14:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
well, TTOI isn't really the sort of thing that lends itself to a 30 second trailer so i'm still hopeful in spite of ^^^that.
― jed_, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
Inception?
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
https://twitter.com/Aiannucci/status/243683223169814528https://twitter.com/Aiannucci/status/243683392330293249https://twitter.com/Aiannucci/status/243683787639250946
― caek, Friday, 7 September 2012 12:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
That indicates significantly less Malcolm Tucker overall maybe, unless the early episodes involve a lot of running back and forth between parties.
The Thick of It Tories generally bring the lols more than their non-Tucker Labour counterparts though.
― Matt DC, Friday, 7 September 2012 12:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
really? the Glen and Ollie combo is pure gold. then there's Jamie, Julius... really there's no one on the other side anywhere near as good as that. Peter Mannion and Emma Messenger are good (and excellent actors) but Vincent Franklin is pretty characateur-ish as well as pretty badly played imo.
― jed_, Friday, 7 September 2012 13:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
i mean he's not terrible but everyone else is so good that it kinda shows him up. and i'd guess he's pretty much the main character now.
― jed_, Friday, 7 September 2012 13:33 (9 months ago) Permalink