Absolute Power - Series 1 DVD

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Stephen Fry and John Bird star as spin doctors Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe, bringing the popular and satirical Radio 4 comedy Absolute Power to BBC 2. 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.

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.

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Stephen Fry, John Bird, Sally Bretton, Geoffrey Palmer, Phillip Schofield, Fern Britton, Huw Edwards, Angus Deayton, Kirsty Wark, Gareth Hunt, Richard Cordery, James Lance, Zoe Telford, Nicholas Burns, Rebecca Front, Angus Deayton, Adrian Lukis, Anthea Turner, Geoffrey Whitehead, Natasha Kaplinsky. Dermot Murnaghan 

  John Morton

  171 mins

  2003



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  English

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  2 - will only play on UK / European DVD player or multi region player

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£16.97