"The Thick of It" - back soon

[Rollcage]

I see "The Thick of It" will be back on BBC2 soon - I wonder what the scriptwriters will get stick into this time?

Something to look forward to at last!

[skeggysteve]

Link, please!

Just hope that the script is as good as the first time round.

[Rollcage]

Just a trailer before TG on now. Didnt say when, sadly.

[EdJ]

I hate it when they don't say when a new show starts. It usually means that I will miss the first episode...

(which is why posting here should remind me...)

[ninja-lewis]

BBC Press Office lists The Thick of It to start as unplaced (no day/time announced yet) during Week 43 (24-30 October).

[skeggysteve]

Bump!

Tonight BBC2 22.10

Fingers crossed it's as good as it was.

For anyone that hasn't seen it before, think Yes Minister but upto date with swearing!

[Rollcage]

skeggysteve said:

Bump!

Tonight BBC2 22.10

Fingers crossed it's as good as it was.

For anyone that hasn't seen it before, think Yes Minister but upto date with swearing!

Cheers.Sky+ set now!

[robinhood21]

I think I must be missing something here as I only tittered the once.

[Northern Munkee]

Hmmm... How many rants can Peter Capaldi do before we get bored of them? However well written and performed they are. Seems as though Tucker is really the central character now, where before he'd seemed to be the hand grenade dropped in from time to time. Was there any story/plot? Have to hope it's just a scene setting first episode. Or maybe real life politicians so absurd, that they are difficult to make it more absurd.

Edited by Northern Munkee on Saturday 24th October 22:55

[zac510]

I watched it for the first time too (on the back of this thread). I thought it was alright but it was a bit fast moving. Maybe I was expecting more Yes Minister and canned laughter after Skeggy's comment!

[BarnatosGhost]

bugger, anyone know when its repeated please?

[Rollcage]

BarnatosGhost said:

bugger, anyone know when its repeated please?

BBC iPlayer will be your friend.

[BarnatosGhost]

Rollcage said:

BarnatosGhost said:

bugger, anyone know when its repeated please?

BBC iPlayer will be your friend.

An acceptable fall-back I suppose, but I'd rather watch it on the telly

[EdJ]

I thought it was fantastic. Good to see Rebecca Front back - she was on Knowing Me Knowing You all those years ago (she played the jockey who took her top off in front of Alan).

[Lost_BMW]

Northern Munkee said:

Hmmm... How many rants can Peter Capaldi do before we get bored of them? However well written and performed they are. Seems as though Tucker is really the central character now, where before he'd seemed to be the hand grenade dropped in from time to time. Was there any story/plot? Have to hope it's just a scene setting first episode. Or maybe real life politicians so absurd, that they are difficult to make it more absurd.

Edited by Northern Munkee on Saturday 24th October 22:55

For me, as many as they can write. Such carefully crafted pockets of vitriol - as funny as 'non-pc'.

The best swearing available!

Edited by Lost_BMW on Wednesday 18th November 08:08

[anonymous-user]

I was lookinmg forward to this and SKY +'d it. Now watched it and hugely disappointed. All the clever stuff from previous episodes has gone, it was just a Tucker fkathon. What a shame.

[Jon C]

This just gets better and better. It would have been easy for the producers to quietly drop the idea, but shifting the focus towards Tucker has created one of the great comedic monsters.
Also contrast Peter Capaldi's portrayal in this with that in the last run of Torchwood. The guy is a genius.

[FourWheelDrift]

"a face like Dot Cotton licking p**s off a nettle"

[Marf]

"You have just laid your first egg made of pure f*ck"

[skeggysteve]

"Don't get up I'm not Viagra"