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Absolute
Power - spin is dead, long live PR
Written
by Guy Andrews, Mark Lawson and Andy Rattenbury
Stephen
Fry and John Bird star as spin doctors Charles Prentiss and Martin
McCabe as they bring the popular and satirical Radio 4 comedy Absolute
Power to BBC TWO.
Written
by media commentator Mark Lawson, writers Andy Rattenbury (Teachers)
and Guy Andrews (Chancer), Absolute Power casts a witty and acerbic
eye on the machinations of PR gurus and does for the PR industry
what Drop The Dead Donkey did for the newsroom.
Stephen
as Prentiss and John as McCabe are an unscrupulous pair who run
the blue chip PR agency Prentiss McCabe. Dealing with commercial
as well as personal PR, their remit covers everything from political
communications to celebrity media relations.
Their
manipulation skills are tested to the full as they frequently find
that their work brings them into conflict with political parties,
newspaper editors and celebrities.
Stephen
Fry says of Charles Prentiss: "He's a brute of a man, out to
win, with no morals, he's completely shameless. There's not much
to say that's nice about him, except that there is some pleasure
in watching a natural born killer at work and knowing whatever happens
he will win."
Absolute
Power is a satirical comedy about a world in which style triumphs
over substance, tabloids are the new judge and jury and where five
minutes of fame is considered a long term career.
Press
pack
Synopsis
The
team
Episodics
Biographies
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