The Thick of It
Season 3
8 listed hours · 2005–2012 · BBC
From the desk
How this season is filed
Spin doctors and ministers thrash through crises while Peter Capaldi's Malcolm Tucker invents new ways to swear a career into dust. The Thick of It is Armando Iannucci's bureaucracy as blood sport — documentary blur, verbal artillery, and the writers' room that later wired Veep.
TV Flash files Season 3 of The Thick of It (2005–2012) on BBC as a mid listed season (3; 3 of 4) — 8 listed hours, 2009-10-24–2009-12-12 from “Episode 1” (S03E01) to “Episode 8” (S03E08). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S03E01 Episode 1
Series-three Episode 1 is the long-gap return: Iannucci's Whitehall still a kill floor, Tucker still the show's only functioning fire alarm.
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S03E01 Episode 1
It's reshuffle day at Number 10 and there's a new face on the show. When the job at the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship is rejected by all the other candidates, there is no option but to promote unknown MP Nicola Murry to the Cabinet. Spin-doctor Malcolm soon puts her in her place then there's an unfortunate poster launch that brings things crashing down for their PR.
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S03E02 Episode 2
There's a crisis when someone wipes some immigration records.
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S03E03 Episode 3
Chaos ensues at the Annual Party Conference, as Glenn and Malcolm clash over a great publicity opportunity and Nicola and Ollie try desperately to write a speech.
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S03E04 Episode 4
The civil servants at DoSAC prepare for a visit from DoSAC shadow minister Peter Mannion.
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S03E05 Episode 5
Richard Bacon holds a radio debate with DoSAC minister Nicola Murray and her shadow Peter Mannion and as usual all does not go well.
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S03E06 Episode 6
The Prime Minister is away but Nicola's tempted to launch a leadership bid anyway.
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S03E07 Episode 7
Who's going to be the face of DoSAC's Healthy Choices campaign? Nicola Murray hasn't a clue.
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S03E08 Episode 8
As the election looms and the Opposition eye the prize, the word around the Westminster Village is that Malcolm Tucker is running out of both options and friends.
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