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* CloudCuckoolander: Jemma White, the Radio 4 newsreader, who smokes marijuana in the studio and basically comes across as a loopy woman with an AmbiguousDisorder when she's not actually on the air.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Jemma White, the Radio 4 newsreader, who smokes marijuana in the studio and basically comes across as a loopy woman with an AmbiguousDisorder when she's not actually on the air.
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* NoNameGiven: The Controllers of Radio 2 and Radio 4, though their names are later revealed in ''Radio/AbsolutePower''.
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* NoNameGiven: The Controllers of Radio 2 and Radio 4, though their names are later revealed in ''Radio/AbsolutePower''.''Radio/AbsolutePowerBBC''.
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The miniseries is probably best known as the work from which the spin-off ''Radio/AbsolutePower'' came to be, following Fry and John Bird's characters, Charles Prentiss and Martin [=McCabe=], as they navigate the PR industry. It is also unique for the way it makes the BBC itself the target of its satire, in a way that doesn't so much [[BitingTheHandHumor bite the hand]] as take a big chunk out of it, with the plot heavily centering around zany dysfunction within all levels of the Beeb.
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The miniseries is probably best known as the work from which the spin-off ''Radio/AbsolutePower'' ''Radio/AbsolutePowerBBC'' came to be, following Fry and John Bird's characters, Charles Prentiss and Martin [=McCabe=], as they navigate the PR industry. It is also unique for the way it makes the BBC itself the target of its satire, in a way that doesn't so much [[BitingTheHandHumor bite the hand]] as take a big chunk out of it, with the plot heavily centering around zany dysfunction within all levels of the Beeb.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Hercules Fortescue, though his name actually belies his ExtremeDoormat status.
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* DysfunctionJunction: At the BBC we have: George Cragge, an unethical, unprofessional, [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] pain-in-the-arse; his producer, Beth Parsons, who hates his guts; Jemma White, the CloudCuckoolander Radio 4 newsreader; Hercules Fortescue, the [[SanitySlippage increasingly off-kilter]] personnel officer; the Controller of Radio 2, who is [[TheStarscream plotting to backstab the Director-General and take his job]]; and the Director-General himself, Jim Wilkes, whose mismanagement of the corporation has put [=BBC1=]'s ratings into fourth place and is dumb enough to let the Radio 2 Controller talk him into the ''Oh Jesus!'' fiasco. Your licence fees at work, everybody!
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* DysfunctionJunction: At the BBC we have: George Cragge, an unethical, unprofessional, [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] pain-in-the-arse; his producer, Beth Parsons, who hates his guts; Jemma White, the CloudCuckoolander Radio 4 newsreader; Hercules Fortescue, the [[SanitySlippage increasingly off-kilter]] personnel officer; the Controller of Radio 2, who is [[TheStarscream plotting to backstab the Director-General and take his job]]; and the Director-General himself, Jim Wilkes, whose mismanagement of the corporation has put [=BBC1=]'s BBC One's ratings into fourth place and is dumb enough to let the Radio 2 Controller talk him into the ''Oh Jesus!'' fiasco. Your licence fees at work, everybody!
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* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: The serial killer targeting bank managers turns out to be this trope.
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* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: The serial killer targeting bank managers turns out to be this trope.have a specific motive for the death of one particular bank manager, and all his other killings are just to disguise that connection.
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* OverlyLiteralTranscription: Potter's put-upon assistant is in the middle of dictating an important speech into a voice recorder when he's ambushed and seduced by his love interest. When the recording is transcribed, it includes everything she said as well as his actual dictation. Potter is so used to saying whatever's put in front of him without engaging his brain that he just rolls with it -- and it comes out as a metaphorical appeal to the electorate to take a chance on him, and significantly improves his public image.
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* DysfunctionJunction: At the BBC we have: George Cragge, an unethical, unprofessional, [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] pain-in-the-arse; his producer, Beth Parsons, who hates his guts; Jemma White, the CloudCuckoolander Radio 4 newsreader; Hercules Fortescue, the [[SanitySlippage increasingly off-kilter]] personnel officer; the Controller of Radio 2, who is [[TheStarscream plotting to backstab the Director-General and take his job]]; and the Director-General himself, Jim Wilkes, whose mismanagement of the corporation that put [=BBC1=]'s ratings into fourth place and is dumb enough to let the Radio 2 Controller talk him into the ''Oh Jesus!'' fiasco. Your licence fees at work, everybody!
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* DysfunctionJunction: At the BBC we have: George Cragge, an unethical, unprofessional, [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] pain-in-the-arse; his producer, Beth Parsons, who hates his guts; Jemma White, the CloudCuckoolander Radio 4 newsreader; Hercules Fortescue, the [[SanitySlippage increasingly off-kilter]] personnel officer; the Controller of Radio 2, who is [[TheStarscream plotting to backstab the Director-General and take his job]]; and the Director-General himself, Jim Wilkes, whose mismanagement of the corporation that has put [=BBC1=]'s ratings into fourth place and is dumb enough to let the Radio 2 Controller talk him into the ''Oh Jesus!'' fiasco. Your licence fees at work, everybody!
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* GeniusDitz: Jemma White flips from stoned CloudCuckoolander to utterly professional newsreader the second her microphone goes live.
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* FailureGambit: Prentiss' plan is to trick the Director-General into greenlighting a primetime religious satire programme so ridiculously offensive that the resulting furore will force him to resign. [[spoiler:It works, though the end result isn't what Prentiss planned.]]
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* FailureGambit: Prentiss' plan is to trick the Director-General into greenlighting cancelling ''Series/SongsOfPraise'' and replacing it with a primetime religious satire programme so ridiculously offensive that the resulting furore will force him to resign. [[spoiler:It works, though the end result isn't what Prentiss planned.]]
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* CloudCuckoolander: Jemma White, the Radio 4 newsreader, who smokes marijuana in the studio and and basically comes across as a loopy woman with an AmbiguousDisorder when she's not actually on the air.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Jemma White, the Radio 4 newsreader, who smokes marijuana in the studio and and basically comes across as a loopy woman with an AmbiguousDisorder when she's not actually on the air.
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* {{Jerkass}}: George Cragge couldn't care less about journalistic ethics and protocol, and treats his superiors (like Beth and Fortescue) as either annoyances or obstacles to his career.
* KentBrockmanNews: Both played straight and subverted. Cragge doesn't bother to appear in the studio in time for his live reports and is always butting heads with Beth, but Jemma always behaves professionally when she's on the air despite being a veritable CloudCuckoolander the rest of the time.
* KentBrockmanNews: Both played straight and subverted. Cragge doesn't bother to appear in the studio in time for his live reports and is always butting heads with Beth, but Jemma always behaves professionally when she's on the air despite being a veritable CloudCuckoolander the rest of the time.
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* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: News of [[spoiler:Jim Wilkes]]'s departure is met with loud cheers at Television Centre.
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* HollywoodLaw: [[spoiler:Even though Andrew James wasn't the SerialKiller, his antics did nearly get multiple people hurt or killed at one point (the van incident) and he waited until the middle of his murder trial to reveal that his entire involvement in the case has been one big publicity stunt. In RealLife, James wouldn't have been able to resume his music career as if nothing had happened; he would have most likely been prosecuted for, at the very least, perverting the course of justice for diverting the prosecution's resources from more pressing, legitimate cases.]]
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* AediposeRex: Geoffrey Crichton Potter, leader of the Reform Party, is played by Creator/RichardGriffiths.
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* AediposeRex: AdiposeRex: Geoffrey Crichton Potter, leader of the Reform Party, is played by Creator/RichardGriffiths.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Creator/RichardGriffiths's character, the leader of an independent third party who embodies the AediposeRex trope, is clearly modelled on prominent Liberal MP[[note]]and posthumously-exposed serial sex offender, although this wouldn't be publicly known until over a decade after the miniseries' transmission[[/note]] Cyril Smith. (Tavener had formerly worked for the Liberal Party during Smith's heyday.)
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Creator/RichardGriffiths's character, the leader of an independent third party who embodies the AediposeRex AdiposeRex trope, is clearly modelled on prominent Liberal MP[[note]]and posthumously-exposed serial sex offender, although this wouldn't be publicly known until over a decade after the miniseries' transmission[[/note]] Cyril Smith. (Tavener had formerly worked for the Liberal Party during Smith's heyday.)
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* AediposeRex: Geoffrey Crichton Potter, leader of the Reform Party, is played by Creator/RichardGriffiths.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Jemma White, the Radio 4 newsreader, who smokes marijuana in the studio and and basically comes across as a loopy woman with an AmbiguousDisorder when she's not actually on the air.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Despite having previously been fired from the BBC for his performance at Andrew James's trial, Cragge saves a group of establishment figures (which includes the head of the BBC's Board of Governors) from being killed by [[spoiler:Dominic De'Ath]]'s bomb. [[spoiler:As a reward, Cragge is appointed as the BBC's new Director-General over Prentiss, who Cragge fires once he learns about how Prentiss engineered Jim Wilkes' ouster.]]
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Creator/RichardGriffiths's character, the leader of an independent third party who embodies the AediposeRex trope, is clearly modelled on prominent Liberal MP[[note]]and posthumously-exposed serial sex offender, although this wouldn't be publicly known until over a decade after the miniseries' transmission[[/note]] Cyril Smith. (Tavener had formerly worked for the Liberal Party during Smith's heyday.)
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* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Andrew James is not actually the SerialKiller, he's just a rock musician who is taking advantage of the media circus to promote his music. It's actually Creator/RikMayall's character, Dominic De'Ath.]]
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* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Andrew James is not actually the SerialKiller, he's just a rock musician who is taking advantage of the media circus to promote his music. It's actually Creator/RikMayall's character, Dominic De'Ath.]]]]
* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: The serial killer targeting bank managers turns out to be this trope.
* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: The serial killer targeting bank managers turns out to be this trope.
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''In the Red'' is a 1998 three-part [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] {{Miniseries}} based on the novel of the same name by Mark Tavener. It's a BlackComedy whodunnit which follows three parallel plot lines: BBC crime reporter George Cragge (Creator/WarrenClarke) receiving correspondence from a SerialKiller who is exclusively targeting bank managers; minor party leader Geoffrey Crichton Potter (Creator/RichardGriffiths), who suddenly finds himself riding strong political headwinds in the midst of the murders; and the backstabbing Controller of Radio 2 (Creator/StephenFry), who is plotting to depose the corporation's Director-General and take the job for himself.
The miniseries is probably best known as the work from which the spin-off ''Radio/AbsolutePower'' came to be, following Fry and John Bird's characters, Charles Prentiss and Martin [=McCabe=], as they navigate the PR industry. It is also unique for the way it makes the BBC itself the target of its satire, in a way that doesn't so much [[BitingTheHandHumor bite the hand]] as take a big chunk out of it, with the plot heavily centering around zany dysfunction within all levels of the Beeb.
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!!''In the Red'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Hercules Fortescue, though his name actually belies his ExtremeDoormat status.
* CarMeetsHouse: Broadcasting House, that is.
* DysfunctionJunction: At the BBC we have: George Cragge, an unethical, unprofessional, [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] pain-in-the-arse; his producer, Beth Parsons, who hates his guts; Jemma White, the CloudCuckoolander Radio 4 newsreader; Hercules Fortescue, the [[SanitySlippage increasingly off-kilter]] personnel officer; the Controller of Radio 2, who is [[TheStarscream plotting to backstab the Director-General and take his job]]; and the Director-General himself, Jim Wilkes, whose mismanagement of the corporation that put [=BBC1=]'s ratings into fourth place and is dumb enough to let the Radio 2 Controller talk him into the ''Oh Jesus!'' fiasco. Your licence fees at work, everybody!
* FailureGambit: Prentiss' plan is to trick the Director-General into greenlighting a primetime religious satire programme so ridiculously offensive that the resulting furore will force him to resign. [[spoiler:It works, though the end result isn't what Prentiss planned.]]
* HumiliationConga: Hercules Fortescue. First he has to contend with George Cragge, who doesn't give a toss about his authority as personnel officer. Then he finds himself being coaxed into the role of producer (a job he has no idea how to perform) for a programme that is [[FailureGambit designed to fail]].
* MeaningfulName: Creator/RikMayall plays Dominic De'Ath. [[spoiler:He turns out to be the killer.]]
** Doubles as an ActorAllusion, since "Dominic De'Ath" is the same type of verbal pun as "[[Series/TheNewStatesman Alan B'Stard]]".
* NoNameGiven: The Controllers of Radio 2 and Radio 4, though their names are later revealed in ''Radio/AbsolutePower''.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Andrew James is not actually the SerialKiller, he's just a rock musician who is taking advantage of the media circus to promote his music. It's actually Creator/RikMayall's character, Dominic De'Ath.]]
The miniseries is probably best known as the work from which the spin-off ''Radio/AbsolutePower'' came to be, following Fry and John Bird's characters, Charles Prentiss and Martin [=McCabe=], as they navigate the PR industry. It is also unique for the way it makes the BBC itself the target of its satire, in a way that doesn't so much [[BitingTheHandHumor bite the hand]] as take a big chunk out of it, with the plot heavily centering around zany dysfunction within all levels of the Beeb.
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!!''In the Red'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Hercules Fortescue, though his name actually belies his ExtremeDoormat status.
* CarMeetsHouse: Broadcasting House, that is.
* DysfunctionJunction: At the BBC we have: George Cragge, an unethical, unprofessional, [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] pain-in-the-arse; his producer, Beth Parsons, who hates his guts; Jemma White, the CloudCuckoolander Radio 4 newsreader; Hercules Fortescue, the [[SanitySlippage increasingly off-kilter]] personnel officer; the Controller of Radio 2, who is [[TheStarscream plotting to backstab the Director-General and take his job]]; and the Director-General himself, Jim Wilkes, whose mismanagement of the corporation that put [=BBC1=]'s ratings into fourth place and is dumb enough to let the Radio 2 Controller talk him into the ''Oh Jesus!'' fiasco. Your licence fees at work, everybody!
* FailureGambit: Prentiss' plan is to trick the Director-General into greenlighting a primetime religious satire programme so ridiculously offensive that the resulting furore will force him to resign. [[spoiler:It works, though the end result isn't what Prentiss planned.]]
* HumiliationConga: Hercules Fortescue. First he has to contend with George Cragge, who doesn't give a toss about his authority as personnel officer. Then he finds himself being coaxed into the role of producer (a job he has no idea how to perform) for a programme that is [[FailureGambit designed to fail]].
* MeaningfulName: Creator/RikMayall plays Dominic De'Ath. [[spoiler:He turns out to be the killer.]]
** Doubles as an ActorAllusion, since "Dominic De'Ath" is the same type of verbal pun as "[[Series/TheNewStatesman Alan B'Stard]]".
* NoNameGiven: The Controllers of Radio 2 and Radio 4, though their names are later revealed in ''Radio/AbsolutePower''.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Andrew James is not actually the SerialKiller, he's just a rock musician who is taking advantage of the media circus to promote his music. It's actually Creator/RikMayall's character, Dominic De'Ath.]]
