A thread for 'The Thick Of It' (and 'In The Loop' as well)

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“We’re all tremendously thrilled to get this nomination,” writes Armando Iannucci, the writer and director of the satire “In the Loop,” a nominee for best adapted screenplay. “‘In The Loop’ was just a simple little film about how Tony Blair’s an idiot, so it’s nice to see Tony Blair’s idiocy get such international recognition.

“‘In the Loop’ was just a low-budget independently funded film, so the nomination must be proof that with limited resources but an enormous amount of profanity, you can achieve anything. Personally, it means that I will become unbearably arrogant in my belief I should have complete artistic control over all my projects, to the point that I must never be let near a camera again.”

haha.

I was having lunch with some friends and our producer rang and said, you know, “Yay! You’ve got the nomination.” I had given myself a very busy schedule so that I wasn’t looking at computer screens and stuff and I actually forgot about the announcement. Then I got the call and ran out to take it, rang my family and before I knew it an hour had passed and they had taken my lunch away. The highs and lows of Oscar season.

What for exactly, if you don't mind me asking?

script

Wow really. In The Loop is awesome and if we ever fap, I will buy you drinks all night.

haha

http://incontention.com/?p=21964

:( british version of rickrolling

haha

all that needed was british accents and a laugh track and people coming in and out of rooms very quickly

"today you have laid your first big fat egg of solid fuck."

This was pretty good, but it was a long episode of "The Office," paced as such.

nah. makes as much sense to compare it with 'festen'.

but iannucci sorta kinda pre-empted 'the office' ne way with 'i'm alan partridge'. wasn't quite there but p much.

i dunno what you mean re pacing -- fast? slow? iirc 'the office' doesn't really build up to a big crisis like this film, doesn't involve parallel action and conversations between two continents, etc.

havent watched the film yet but finished the series and 2 specials. malcolm tucker is the best tv character in forever

wait, is there another series after the nicola one?

no.

for unfathomable reasons, seasons one and two are three episodes each.

so technically it's series one, series two, the two specials, then series three.

right. hard to see this being any good in u.s. form but who knows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8gMOJJqxtE

<3 glen

http://www.ifcfilms.com/inside-ifc-films/full-in-the-loop-screenplay-now-online-with-a-special-note-from-armando-iannucci

kind of hilarious how much the behind the scenes alan johnson stuff in this is like the thick of it http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qplfp/The_Great_Offices_of_State_The_Dark_Department/

http://video.uk.msn.com/watch/video/four-lions-trailer/2trpus57

not actually related i know

ok i found the actual four lions thread nothing to see here

but iannucci sorta kinda pre-empted 'the office' ne way with 'i'm alan partridge'. wasn't quite there but p much.

The office sketch in The Day Today!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/02/homo-erectus-osborne-stab-darling

these are killing me

willy banjo

have to see this show now

welp

this was s.thing they did not foresee!

While I totally understand the reasons behind it, I've been getting kind of annoyed with all the Tucker/thick of it etc. references recently. I suppose people can be pleased that their TV show/movie became so ubiquitous so quickly.

i wasn't feeling the guardian column so much

and the last series was a bit variable (ie some brilliant, like the richard bacon ep, some less so)

but you know, it was pretty obscure when it first aired

The Tucker-as-columnist thing didn't work because Tucker is only that brutally honest in private - he wouldn't actually write that way in a national newspaper - so it felt off.

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?"

Tucker looks at the camera for a split second then runs off up the stairs, but then stops halfway, turns round, thinks about what he's just been asked, does the Aguirre-looking-at-monkey face and then sprints off up the stairs.

hahaha

I think that's the same episode where he calls Ollie a "minge flannel," which killed me. I also liked "the beige power ranger" and "the unbaked gingerbread boy" for S3 Ollie insults.

Are they going to do more of these? Will Malcolm still be the focus, but in opposition?

I don't think they should do anymore

One-offs maybe, but not a whole series

there will be more

as i cryptically said a little above, they possibly dropped the ball by not having lib dems

would have been a good thing to introduce in series 3 instead of concentrating-too-much-for-my-liking on glen and the annoying civil servant woman

I could watch annoying-civil-servant-woman all day, I think her character is amazing.

Peep Show keeps going on and on, a la US TV progs, so I expect there will be more

there's only been like 16 eps of this tom!

with major cast changes!

Oh, I thought there had been more. I missed most of the last series, and I didn't see the first series at all, so I must have only seen about 5 or 6 of these!

I thought they were going to do a handful more specials as the build-up to the election? The end of the last series would certainly be a weird note to end on, given they'd just introduced The Fucker.

o god it wd be so epic if he became a regular

i was more into the tory shenanigans than rebecca front's lot in the third series

roger allam crushing it all the way through + the steve hilton guy

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.

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