Malcolm Tucker: Last News

Peter Capaldi says he's "deeply touched" to be honoured an award for Outstanding Contribution to Film and Television at this year's Scottish BAFTAs.

Peter Capaldi has spoken to NME about his second solo album ‘Sweet Illusions’, the state of UK politics, his upcoming role in Black Mirror, mental health support in the film and TV industry, the Oasis reunion and the success of his cousin Lewis Capaldi.The 66-year-old actor, who is renowned for playing the main role in Doctor Who and the profane spin doctor Malcolm Tucker in the political satire The Thick of It, was speaking to NME at a junket for the upcoming second series of supernatural psychological thriller The Devil’s Hour.His punk and new wave-influenced ‘Sweet Illusions’ follows 2021’s ‘St. Christopher’ and has been preceded by atmospheric lead single ‘Bin Night’. The album will be released via the independent label Last Night From Glasgow and was produced by Dr.

Slow Horses is “a huge step up in terms of the scale and the level of action” fans can expect to see from the new season, according to the show’s showrunner, executive producer and writer, Will Smith.Smith, who also wrote for The Thick Of It and Veep, told NME ahead of season three’s release that despite the increased action, it was still important that Slow Horses “felt like the same show” and that it “didn’t suddenly go off into feeling like it was just generic action.” He continued: “We still felt like it was our characters involved in it, and it still had the humour and the drama: it still felt like our show.”The group of disgraced MI5 rejects are back in a new series which sees the addition of Gangs of London star Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, whose partner is killed in mysterious circumstances while both are working for MI5. “Oh I love Ṣọpẹ́, he’s an amazing actor,” Smith says.

“I love you, but you are not serious people,” says Logan Roy (Brian Cox) to his estranged and ambitious offspring in Succession‘s fourth and final season. For a series stuffed to gills with verbal uppercuts that would leave Malcolm Tucker bruised and blushing, the profanity-free candor from the Emmy-winning series’ media baron fulfillingly sticks the shiv in deep.

The Thick Of It, eight years after the penultimate episode aired.The creator and writer of the political comedy series speculated on where Peter Capaldi’s character Malcolm Tucker would be today.“Peter had always thought that Malcolm had been an alcoholic and was teetotal,” Iannucci explained in an interview with British GQ. “So he had a kind of past that he’d kind of managed to get through.

"Right, people. Listen up! It’s a fucking lockdown right now!"