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Seems to be a lot of politically minded folk on here. Anyone else love The Thick Of It?

Been rewatching it lately and it's actually slightly depressing how true to life things like this and The Day Today have proven to be!

Hilarious show. Just watched the episode with Manion and Nicola Murray being interviewed by Richard Bacon. Ollie throwing hot coffee over Phil's balls :lol:

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The truly frightening thing is that Whitehall insiders have told Armando Iannuci that it's very realistic apart from the swearing - apparently there isn't enough!

I've got a mate who is a Whitehall civil servant and that's exactly what he says.

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I only recently discovered it but it's fantastic.

The show you mention above when they're getting interviewed on the radio is brilliant. With their advisors trying to give them info through the glass as they both stumble in to faux-pas after faux-pas :lol:

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The final week or so of the Indyref you could have been forgiven for thinking you were living in an episode of it. Saltire hung from Downing Street, but being delayed because they couldn't find one... Then dropping it when trying to hoist it :lol:

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Seems to be a lot of politically minded folk on here. Anyone else love The Thick Of It?

Been rewatching it lately and it's actually slightly depressing how true to life things like this and The Day Today have proven to be!

Hilarious show. Just watched the episode with Manion and Nicola Murray being interviewed by Richard Bacon. Ollie throwing hot coffee over Phil's balls :lol:

Got the boxed set, absolutley fantastic.

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Bruce?

The Thick of It is far better than it's American equivalent, Veep.

I mind watching a few episodes when it first came out and enjoying it well enough. Keep meaning to watch more but it's pretty low down on my list of telly shows to batter through.

Assume folk have seen In The Loop, the film version? Genius.

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Armando ianucci was interviewed after In The Loop came. He was disturbed to find that spads were coming up to him and saying "I model myself on Malcolm Tucker, he's my hero." Malcolm Tucker, explained armando, was intended to be a monstrous caricature of all that is bad and cynical about politics, not a role model...

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Love the Jamie character, favourite episode is "rise of the nutters", where Jamie falls out with Malcolm and then tries to get his own candidate up for the leadership. The scene where Malcolm finds out and phones Jamie is utterly brilliant.

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I thought the transition to the Coalition era was really good. The grey-suited LibDems squabbling over credit for policies, the not-so-nasty, not-unlikeable Tory and the desperate Stu character.

Saw Ballot Monkeys last week, thought it lacked bite. The jokes and characters are mostly too obvious and are not up to the real world, couldn't make-it-up agony/ecstasy of a real campaign. Also lacks the menace of high stakes central office stuff. It might work in 10 minute instalments if on every night, and topical every day.

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