The New Statesman

Name: The New Statesman
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1987-09-13T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 7.5

About The New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.

The New Statesman is a comedy series made for ITV1. Its 4 seasons and 26 episodes were broadcast from September 1987 to December 1992. That is around 7 episodes a season.

Rik Mayall appears as Alan B'Stard, and Michael Troughton as Piers Fletcher-Dervish.

Shelv files it under surreal, northern england, political satire, and yorkshire. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and BritBox.

The Thick of It, Yes Minister, and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin make useful companions to The New Statesman, all filed under british politics and politics. It scores 7.5 out of 10 from 54 TMDB voters.