If you thought the corridors of Westminster had gone exceedingly quiet, fear not, it's all about to change.
Malcolm Tucker is having to suck it up - he's in opposition, and he's not the boss
Never mind the approaching end of summer recess, earning bigger trumpets is the return to our TV screens of The Thick Of It, after a sleeping but never silent hiatus of three years.
Series 4 stars on Saturday 8 September, and the first thing to note is a few changes to the Government front line. For some strange creative reason, a Coalition now shares the burdens of power and national responsibility, and it's a marriage that isn't entirely Derek Batey.
Meanwhile, Nicola Murray (played by Rebecca Front) has... somehow... found herself the leader of the Opposition, which means she has to deal, on a daily basis, with antagonism, undisguised hostility and a veil of contempt.
Nothing to do with the despatch box - just that she's now Malcolm Tucker's boss.
Creator Armando Iannucci has previously said of Series 4: "This series takes The Thick of It into exciting and uncharted territory: a new Coalition Government, and Malcolm and Nicola fretting in the wings. For the first time too a storyline takes us all the way through the series right to the bitter, bitter end, with Government and Opposition convulsed in an incident that questions every political convention imaginable, but in a funny way."
WATCH the trailer above, and below are some of Malcolm Tucker's best moments - BEWARE: Malcolm Tucker at his most verbally liberated does not make for family-friendly viewing...