Chris Addison On His New Show ‘Tall Tales & Murder’ & Why ‘Veep’ And ‘The Thick Of It’ Wouldn’t Work Today: “Our Relationship To Politics Has Fundamentally Changed”

Deadline · 2026-02-22
Chris Addison On His New Show ‘Tall Tales & Murder’ & Why ‘Veep’ And ‘The Thick Of It’ Wouldn’t Work Today: “Our Relationship To Politics Has Fundamentally Changed”

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Addison is a political TV veteran having starred in The Thick of It and won two Emmys for directing Veep, but he thinks it’s curtains for this brand of political satire. “Our relationship to politics has fundamentally changed,” Addison told Deadline as he promoted