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The New Statesman (1987)

Comedy

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.

IMDb rating
7.8 (3,150 votes)
Seasons
4
Streaming (US)
Amazon Prime Video · Britbox Apple TV Channel · BritBox · BritBox Amazon Channel · The Roku Channel · Pluto TV · Plex · Tubi TV · Plex Channel
Language
EN
Type
TV series

Ratings refreshed Jul 3, 2026 · 4 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1987)

7.55 avg 8 episodes 7.3 → 8.3 25 min avg

Ep 1: 7.3 · 119 votesEp 2: 7.3 · 97 votesEp 3: 7.6 · 95 votesEp 4: 7.2 · 90 votesEp 5: 7.3 · 88 votesEp 6: 8.0 · 89 votesEp 7: 7.4 · 83 votesEp 8: 8.3 · 48 votes
Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Happiness Is a Warm Gun7.3119
2Passport to Freedom7.397
3Sex Is Wrong7.695
4Waste Not Want Not7.290
5Friends of St. James7.388
6Three Line Whipping8.089
7Baa Baa Black Sheep7.483
8Alan B'Stard Closes Down the BBC8.348

Season 2 (1989)

7.78 avg 8 episodes 7.7 → 8.3 29 min avg

Ep 1: 7.7 · 77 votesEp 2: 7.5 · 72 votesEp 3: 7.8 · 74 votesEp 4: 8.1 · 85 votesEp 5: 7.1 · 74 votesEp 6: 7.8 · 74 votesEp 7: 7.9 · 73 votesEp 8: 8.3 · 84 votes
Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Fatal Extraction7.777
2Live from Westminster7.572
3The Wapping Conspiracy7.874
4The Haltemprice Bunker8.185
5California Here I Come7.174
6May the Best Man Win7.874
7Piers of the Realm7.973
8Who Shot Alan B'Stard?8.384

Season 3 (1991)

7.77 avg 6 episodes 8.0 → 7.6 25 min avg

Ep 1: 8.0 · 67 votesEp 2: 7.9 · 66 votesEp 3: 7.8 · 63 votesEp 4: 7.8 · 63 votesEp 5: 7.5 · 61 votesEp 6: 7.6 · 60 votes
Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Labour of Love8.067
2The Party's Over7.966
3Let Them Sniff Cake7.863
4Keeping Mum7.863
5Natural Selection7.561
6Profit of Boom7.660

Season 4 (1992)

7.17 avg 6 episodes 7.3 → 7.7 25 min avg

Ep 1: 7.3 · 57 votesEp 2: 6.8 · 54 votesEp 3: 6.8 · 53 votesEp 4: 7.5 · 55 votesEp 5: 6.9 · 61 votesEp 6: 7.7 · 56 votes
Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Back from the Mort7.357
2H*A*S*H6.854
3Speaking in Tongues6.853
4Heil and Farewell7.555
5A Bigger Splash6.961
6The Irresistible Rise of Alan B'Stard7.756