Absolute Power

This was a rather amusing satire of the public relations idustry and the cult of satire, it starred Stephen Fry as the unscrupulus head of a company called Prentiss McCabe, Frys' character was a souless operator who had a cynical outlook on life and an annoying habit of always coming up smelling of roses . His business partner Martin McCabe was played by John Bird who is one half of Bird and Fortune, both of these actors are very believable and convincing in the roles they play. This show reminded me a bit of Drop the Dead Donkey in that it was a similarly fast paced satire with some biting dialogue while all the time you sort of half believe that such things ...