Armando
Last year marked the 30th anniversary of breakthrough television satire The Day Today, which began life as On The Hour on Radio 4 and parodied the bombastic nature of contemporary news and current affairs programmes. These series unleashed the character Alan Partridge - a hapless sports presenter played by Steve Coogan - and launched an array of writing, directing and performing talent including Chris Morris, Patrick Marber, Doon Mackichan and Rebecca Front, among others.
BBC Studios and Touchscreen Limited have today announced their UK development partnership.
The agreement will see BBC Studios and Touchscreen, founded by Armando Iannucci, work together to develop and co-produce innovative, daring and world-class scripted programming for the UK and international markets, distributed by BBC Studios.
Anyone seeing Armando Iannucci credited as the writer of Pandemonium might expect a satire with the brutality of The Thick of It or the classy bite of Veep. Think again. This new play, directed by another seriously big stage name, Patrick Marber, feels at times more like a panto about the pandemic than a state of the nation swipe. The laughs are certainly there but they are pretty bloody broad.
Pandemonium is a wild account of our great leaders grappling with the Pandemic and then with each other. A caustic entertainment for the winter months, it relates the Johnson-Truss-Sunak years in all their glory. Re-live the horror. The Mess. The Murk. The Lying about the Lies.
'Jingle while you mingle. It’s one big party. Bring a suitcase.'
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