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"The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci has criticised the show&amp;#039;s US remake. Iannucci worked with ABC on a revamp of the political satire in 2006, but told the Radio Times that the resulting pilot was &amp;quot;terrible&amp;quot;.   &amp;quot;The mistake is to think that because America has this tremendous influence internationally, therefore all Americans are brilliant,&amp;quot; said the writer. &amp;quot;When we were doing the pilot of The Thick of It at ABC there were just scores of people working on it, all called vice president this and that, and a lot of them were buffoons.&amp;quot; However, Iannucci praised US cable channel HBO, with whom he recently collaborated on new series Veep starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. &amp;quot;What has been great with HBO is that they are the opposite,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;What you realise is that they are people at the top of their game, and you are actually benefiting from their experience.&amp;quot; A fourth series of The Thick of It begins this Saturday (September 8) at 9.45pm on BBC Two. &amp;gt; Armando Iannucci to pilot &amp;#039;social media satire&amp;#039; for HBO Watch a trailer for the new series of The Thick of It below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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