Party Animals

Name: Party Animals
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Peter Wight, Shelley Conn, Matt Smith, Andrea Riseborough, Raquel Cassidy

15
TV series
2007
1 season
BBC Four
Comedy

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Party Animals presents Westminster from the ground up – the young researchers and advisors shouldering huge responsibility in a frantic, high-stakes world. It's no wonder their personal lives are so messy. Sons of an ex-Labour MP, Scott and Danny Foster have politics in their blood.

About the show

Party Animals is a British television drama series screened on BBC Two in 2007. It was written by Ben Richards and Robert Jones, and produced by Eleanor Greene for World Productions, the makers of No Angels and This Life.

Party Animals tells the story of people working in and around the British Parliament, including researchers, lobbyists and Members of Parliament. The show featured Matt Smith in his first major television role, portraying Labour Party researcher Danny Foster. Andrew Buchan played Scott Foster, Danny's older brother and a lobbyist. The show also starred Shelley Conn as a Tory party parliamentary researcher and aspiring Minister, and Andrea Riseborough, who works alongside Danny as an intern.

In Australia, ABC1 began broadcasting the show from 2 December 2008 on a Tuesday 8:30pm timeslot over the ('non-ratings period') summer break. In the province of Ontario, Canada, TVOntario (Ontario's public educational media organisation), began showing the series in February 2010. In the province of British Columbia, Canada, The Knowledge Network began showing the series in September 2011. In Norway, NRK broadcast the show from May to June 2012.

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