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

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

IA = AI = armando iannucci

AI = Lib Dem supporter

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.

lid dems are so colourless, though, not sure how to 'do' them

Shame they've already got Julius because he's be a perfect LibDem. They don't really have a Campbell/Coulson figure though.

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

"did you have a nice poofmas?"

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.

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.

oO

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/11/gears-of-comedy-total-pussy-test-drives-monster-military-hardware/

lawl

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

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.

I just caught Peter Capaldi being a Wise Man on BBC's 'The Nativity' - kept expecting him to swear.

I noticed he was going for the Sean Connery school of Scottish accent acting.

he seems like a chill person irl

i guess that's what acting's about

I read a thing where he claimed to never swear IRL as well. Malc must be deeply cathartic for him.

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.