The Thick Of It's creator Armando Iannucci has slammed the "buffoons" who remade his political satire in the US.
Iannucci, 48, acted as executive producer while trying to adapt the hit BBC show for an American audience.
Broadcaster ABC rejected it after viewing the pilot and Iannucci distanced himself, saying: "It was terrible ... conventionally shot and there was no improvisation or swearing."
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