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 Mash Report The Mash Report The Mash Report is a British comedy on BBC Two. It satirises the news and is hosted by Nish Kumar. First aired on 20 July 2017, it is a TV show spin-off of "The Daily Mash", a satirical website. The first series comprised ten episodes. The second series, of six episodes, started airing on 26 October 2018. Chortle regarded the series as a successful UK version of "The Onion". A segment, in the first show of the second half of the first series, was watched online more than 11 million times in two days (eventually reaching more