The Thick of It coincidentally ended up occurring only two days after Peter Capaldi was announced as the new star of "Doctor Who". (Even more coincidental, a cast commentary included as part of a photo gallery featurette for the episode "Rise of the Nutters" included in the DVD set, recorded several years earlier, has several cast members jokingly deciding to start a rumour that Capaldi is to be the next Doctor.) "The Thick of It: The Scripts", a book containing the scripts from the first two series and the 2007 specials, was published on 1 September 2007. A tie-in book, "The Thick Of It:
The Comedy of Errors the only two of Shakespeare's plays to comply with this standard. Law professor Eric Heinze, however, claims that particularly notable in the play is a series of social relationships, which is in crisis as it sheds its feudal forms, and confronts the market forces of early modern Europe. Two early performances of "The Comedy of Errors" are recorded. One, by "a company of base and common fellows", is mentioned in the "Gesta Grayorum" ("The Deeds of Gray") as having occurred in Gray's Inn Hall on 28 December 1594. The second also took place on "Innocents' Day", but ten years later: