It’s been revealed today that hit political satire show The Thick of It is to return to our screens for a fourth series this autumn.

Starring Peter Capaldi as acerbic spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker, the news series is made up of seven 30-minute episodes, will air this autumn on BBC Two.

Also coming back for the new series are show regulars Rebecca Front as Nicola Murray MP, and Roger Allam as Peter Mannion MP, who’s trying to cope with life as a minister in a new coalition government. His new coalition partne,r Fergus Williams MP, is played by former Spooks star, Geoffrey Streatfeild…

The Thick of It’s creator, Armando Iannucci, told What’s On TV of the show’s return, “This series takes The Thick Of It into exciting and uncharted territory: a new coalition government, and Malcolm and Nicola fretting in the wings…

“For the first time too a storyline takes us all the way through the series right to the bitter, bitter end, with government and opposition convulsed in an incident that questions every political convention imaginable, but in a funny way.”

Are you looking forward to the show’s return?

Here’s a reminder of the show and of one of Malcolm’s epic dressing downs…