Absolute Power
BBC Two (ended 2005)
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Season 2
- Ep 6The House of Lords8/25/05
This week Prentiss McCabe takes a government contract to make getting rid of the present form of the House of lords seem like a good thing. Unfortunately for Charles, Martin has gone off on his own and taken a contract from the House of Lords to help them be wanted by the British voters.''''Charles as usual sees this as a challenge, as well as an excercise in getting paid twice. So he takes on both contracts and worries about how to do it later. He takes on two of the staff and tells Martin to take another two, and says "may the best team win".moreless - Ep 5Spinning America8/18/05
TBD - Ep 4The Nation's Favourite8/11/05
The firm of Prentiss McCabe are over the moon to hear that Jamie has got them a new Oil sheik client, who wants to buy British Airways. That is until Jamie tells them the client's family name is Rezza Bin-Laden (yes the family of THAT bin Laden ). Charles and Martin are adamant that they don't want him for a client, no matter how rich he is. But finally they are persuaded to have a look at him.moreless - Ep 3Blood Bank8/4/05
The team at Prentis McCabe assume thet Charles is in jail for another month, so they prepare to tackle their new client , Artist, Dean Wheelwright (Richard Katz). It is their job to get him to eneter and win the lucrative turner prize for the years beast contribution to art. However he says he does not want to eneter, so they have a problem...moreless - Ep 2The Trial7/28/05
Poor charles finds himself in the dock, after one of Prentis MaCabe's old clients has a fit of conscience and decides to do the worst thing a client can do. He tells the truth about one of Charles' lies, after becoming a Christian and repenting. - Ep 1Identity Crisis7/21/05
The staff need to come up with a way to sell the public on the idea of ID cards.
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Season 1
- Ep 6Crash and Burn12/15/03
A hugely lucrative golden handcuff deal is jeopardised when one of Charles' most successful clients, the stand-up comedian Alan Boardman, is caught on CCTV camera beating up his girlfriend in the Ikea car park.''''The strategy Charles proposes to save his career is, even by Prentiss McCabes' shoddy moral standards, as unethical as it is shocking. An apocalyptic end seems inevitable for the sultans of spin.''''Meanwhile in an attempt to sex up their image, the Tory party have approached Prentiss McCabe to launch a youth-led campaign - should they choose as their anthem I Have A Dream by Westlife, It's OK by Atomic Kitten or Blue's All Rise?moreless - Ep 5Country Life12/8/03
Successful novelist Roddy Growse orchestrates the appointment of Prentiss McCabe to represent The Real Country Union, a pressure group that has decided to launch itself as a political party. ''''The group is the brain child of Lord Harcourt who in Charles' judgement is an old imbecile who sits around his extensive Oxfordshire pile, writing letters to The Times about voles. ''''It is agreed, with Harcourt's blessing, that Roddy should lead the new party. A meeting is arranged for Charles and Martin to meet the Union at Harcourt's estate. ''''All goes swimmingly well until Harcourt and Roddy decide that Charles and Martin deserve to be given a little extra insight into the organisation which they have agreed to promote.''''There follows a revelation that puts Charles' belief that he can spin anything - even the un-spinnable - severely to the test.''''Elsewhere there is the brutal junking of radio veteran Sandy 'Rigor' Morters to be addressed and the regeneration, by any means, of Gareth Hunt's careermoreless - Ep 4Mr. Fox12/1/03
When Health Secretary Simon Wellington wins an injunction preventing newspapers from reporting an incident on Hampstead Heath in which he was allegedly mugged by two men, Charles agrees to help Wellington keep his job. ''''But the survival strategy is threatened by the emergence of a transcript detailing what was said on the Heath that night. It looks bad for the minister until Martin demonstrates to journalists that over-heard words can have more than one meaning. ''''Charles, however, still faces the problem of going face to face with a spin-doctor even more Machiavellian than he is - the Number 10 Press Secretary, Colin Priestley. ''''Priestley suggests Wellington should come out to save his career. In other words: "If you're out, you're in. If you're in, you're out."''''Away from Westminster Alison is shepherding Jimmy Bart, a bad-boy pop star, who has promised his new record company that he's clean of drugs. ''''But when her client starts to behave strangely Alison is herself forced to act out of character, undertaking a dangerous mission in Soho.moreless - Ep 3Tory Women11/24/03
How does one go about re-launching a junior shadow spokeswoman who has been marginalised in the Tory party? ''''She referred to her leader as "pork bum" and her last ditch attempt to stay in the mainstream of politics is to sponsor a 'Right To Retire' campaign. ''''The politician in question is 'spokes-bore', Joanne Standing, shadow spokeswoman for work and pensions. ''''Charles reluctantly takes on her campaign which seems to promise little in the way of glamour, or more importantly, money. ''''It's just another bad day at the office but when Charles starts to sprinkle some of his magic dust the consequences are unpredictably successful.''''Elsewhere Martin believes he's in danger of serious physical assault from an irate celebrity chef, whose latest restaurant opening night Martin has managed to cock up.moreless - Ep 2Pope Idol11/17/03
Martin and Jamie sense that the world of PR is changing. The profession has developed such a bad reputation that it could do with a bit of spin-doctoring itself.
To show that they can make a good impression as well as making money, Prentiss McCabe takes part in a charity football tournament where Charles doesn't quite play the game.
Prentiss McCabe then takes on the Archbishop of York, a rather dour man of the cloth whose supporters hope to make into the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
Charles doesn't play the game on that one either. He refuses to help, much more interested in the case of a brilliant, young, Welsh footballer who wants to convince the authorities he's really English in the hope of playing in the next World Cup.moreless - Ep 1History Man11/10/03
Prentiss McCabe client, Nigel Harting, is a celebrated presenter of television history programmes, who specialises in revealing sensational facts. But he has a secret.
Newspaper editor, Marcus Payne, has discovered that Nigel plays fast and loose with his sources. A letter in Latin proving that Anne of Cleves was actually a man is an outright fake.
Marcus agrees to shelve this career-destroying revelation if Charles can dig up some shocking and rather more tabloid-compatible filth about Nigel's private life.
Meanwhile, Prentiss McCabe is saddled with Big Brother contestant Teresa, recruited as a client because she stripped in the shower.
She is now revealed as a bully and a bore and demands that Martin supervises the promotion of her huge and appalling novel.moreless
