The Thick of It

Streaming video - 2005

Award-winning comedian Armando Iannucci directs this dark political satire, set in the corridors of British government. An ensemble of the best British comic actors improvise around scripts based on inside knowledge and leaked revelations of the workings of Westminster. The team at the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship find themselves in a world dominated by internal politics, power and the media, where they have no choice but to do as Number 10 tells them, else face the wrath of the Prime Minister's Machiavellian spin doctor, Malcolm Tucker.