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Charles is asked to come up with a headline-grabbing strategy for the Government.

The House of Lords

Comedy

The Government needs to be seen to be doing something radical about reforming the House of Lords so Charles's arch rival, Press secretary Colin Priestly, asks him to come up with a headline-grabbing strategy.

Absolute Power

Stephen Fry is the ruthless PR guru in this biting satire

Stephen Fry is the ruthless PR guru in this biting satire. For Charles and Martin, keeping celebrities, MPs and other well-known faces in or out of the papers is a full time job!

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Charles is asked to turn the tables on a sensationalist television presenter.

History Man

Prentiss McCabe client Nigel Harting is a television presenter who specialises in revealing sensational facts. But newspaper editor Marcus Payne has discovered that Nigel plays fast and loose with his sources.

How does one re-launch the career of a junior politician? Charles is reluctant to try.

Tory Woman

How does one re-launch the career of a junior frontline politician marginalised in the Tory party? The politician in question is 'spokes-bore' Joanne Standing, and Charles reluctantly takes on her campaign.

Charles agrees to help the health secretary spin his way out of an embarrassing incident.

Mr Fox

When Health Secretary Simon Wellington is involved in an incident on Hampstead Heath, Charles agrees to help him, and faces a spin doctor even more Machiavellian than he is.

A new political party focused on the countryside needs Prentiss McCabe's help.

Country Life

Successful novelist, Roddy Growse, orchestrates the appointment of Prentiss McCabe to represent The Real Country Union, a pressure group that has decided to launch itself as a political party.

Charles proposes a particularly shocking strategy to help a comedian out of a hole.

Crash and Burn

A hugely lucrative golden handcuff deal is jeopardised when one of Charles' clients, comedian Alan Boardman, is caught on CCTV camera beating up his girlfriend in the IKEA car park. The strategy Charles proposes is as unethical as it is shocking.

The House of Lords is in need of reform, or at least a more contemporary image.

Identity Crisis

Charles Prentiss becomes the subject of spin when he invents an under-age sex scandal.

The Trial

Charles Prentiss becomes the subject of spin after he invents an under-age sex scandal to promote a client's books and is put on trial for perjury. The trial becomes a cause célèbre of Jeffrey Archer-like proportions.

With Charles in prison, Martin must ensure an unwilling artist wins the Turner Prize.

Blood Bank

With Charles in prison, Martin is left in charge. His latest client is an artist who has the potential to win the Turner Prize, but claims he wants no part of the art world media circus.

Martin's latest client is an artist who has the potential to win the Turner Prize.

The Nation's Favourite

When a Saudi Arabian businessman offers public relations maestros Prentiss and McCabe vast amounts of money to help him buy British Airways, it seems an irresistible proposition - until they discover his name is Bin Laden.

In a post-Iraq backlash requires some PR to make the people of Britain love America again.

Spinning America

When hamburger sales start plummeting, together with other American imports, it appears there is a substantial post-Iraq backlash. Prentiss McCabe is called in to spin the unspinnable - to make the people of Britain fall in love with America again.

Absolute Power

Absolute Power

Series 2

1. Identity Crisis

1. Identity Crisis

2. The Trial

2. The Trial

3. Blood Bank

3. Blood Bank

4. The Nation's Favourite

4. The Nation's Favourite

5. Spinning America

5. Spinning America

6. The House of Lords

6. The House of Lords