The New Statesman

Ο βουλευτής του Yorkshire, Alan B’Stard, έχει τη μεγαλύτερη πλειοψηφία στη Βουλή των Κοινοτήτων, και ένα εγώ για να ταιριάζει. Είναι χυδαίος, συχνά διαφαινόμενος, σεξουαλικά ανίκανος, αδιάφορος, αδίστακτος και γενικά απεχθής σε όλους: ένας τέλειος συνδυασμός για μια δημόσια φιγούρα στο χείλος της εξουσίας.

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time. It was written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran at the request of, and as a starring vehicle for, its principal actor, Rik Mayall.

The show’s theme tune is an arrangement by Alan Hawkshaw of part of the Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.

The programme was made by the ITV franchise Yorkshire Television between 1987 and 1992, although the BBC made two special episodes; one in 1988, the other in 1994.