Party Animals (TV series)
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| Format | Drama |
| Created by |  World Productions for BBC |
| Starring | Patrick Baladi Andrew Buchan Matt Smith Raquel Cassidy Shelley Conn Andrea Riseborough Clemency Burton-Hill Pip Carter Peter Wight |
| Country of origin |  United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
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| Running time | Varies |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC Two |
| Original run | 31 January 2007 – 21 March 2007 |
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Party Animals is a British television drama series screened on BBC Two in 2007. It was produced by World Productions, the makers of No Angels and This Life.[1]
Party Animals tells the story of people involved with the Parliament of the United Kingdom, including researchers, lobbyists and government (at the time Labour) and Tory MPs.
Despite reasonably good critical reaction, the show has scored poorly in the ratings, attracting only one million viewers. The BBC has not commissioned another series.
The show featured Matt Smith, portraying Parliamentary researcher Danny Foster in his first major television role. Smith currently portrays the Eleventh Doctor in the popular sci-fi series Doctor Who.
In Australia, ABC1 began airing the show from 2 December 2008 on a Tuesday 8:30pm timeslot over the ('non-ratings period') summer break.[2]
In the province of Ontario, Canada, TVO (Television Ontario, Ontario's public educational media organisation), began airing the series in February, 2010.
In the province of British Columbia, Canada, The Knowledge Network began airing the series in September 2011.
It is currently streaming on hulu.
[edit] Cast
- Andrew Buchan as Scott Foster
- Shelley Conn as Ashika Chandrimani
- Andrea Riseborough as Kirsty MacKenzie
- Matt Smith as Danny Foster
- Patrick Baladi as James Northcote
- Clemency Burton-Hill as Sophie Montgomery
- Pip Carter as Matt Baker
- Raquel Cassidy as Jo Porter
- Colin Salmon as Stephen Templeton
- Peter Wight as George Morgan
- Kika Markham as Vanessa Renfew
- Marian McLoughlin as Barbara Foster
- Emily Beecham as Vienna Lurie
- Guy Flanagan as Felix Carrera
- Nick Sampson as Paul Gaughan
- Terence Harvey as Dougie Ellington
