Absolute Power is a British comedy series, set in the offices of Prentiss McCabe, a fictional public relations company (or 'government-media relations consultancy') in London, run by Charles Prentiss (Stephen Fry) and Martin McCabe (John Bird).
It started in 2000 on BBC Radio 4, with the fourth and last radio series broadcast in 2004. A six-part television series ran on BBC Two towards the end of 2003; the second six-episode television series ran...
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Absolute Power is a British comedy series, set in the offices of Prentiss McCabe, a fictional public relations company (or 'government-media relations consultancy') in London, run by Charles Prentiss (Stephen Fry) and Martin McCabe (John Bird).
It started in 2000 on BBC Radio 4, with the fourth and last radio series broadcast in 2004. A six-part television series ran on BBC Two towards the end of 2003; the second six-episode television series ran on BBC Two on Thursdays at 10 pm from 21st July to 25th August 2005. A one-off radio episode was broadcast on 3rd November 2006.
The title is taken from a quotation by the historian Lord Acton that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely".
The series was devised and written by Mark Tavener, and logically follows the series In the Red, In the Balance, In the Chair, and In the End which he wrote with Peter Baynham. In some of these, Prentiss and McCabe (again played by Fry and Bird) are elevated members of the BBC,...
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