Absolute Power - Series 1

Prentiss McCabe are the piranhas of the murky celebrity pond, chewing up reality show rejects and taking chunks out of newspaper editors - all in the name of PR.

The PR agency run by Charles, the flamboyant puppet-master and Martin, the old school cynic are second to none in the dark art of repackaging black as white. When every celebrity and MP's indiscretion is a front page exclusive there's no shortage of business. And, if gullible hacks want to grasp every carefully proffered fabrication, well the agency is only too willing to help.

1. History Man - TV historian Nigel Harting is to be exposed as a fraud. Can Charles dig up a more tabloid-compatible story?
2. Pope Idol - Prentiss McCabe move into religion and try to get the Archbishop of York into the top job.
3. Tory Woman - Mission impossible? Joanne Standing, shadow "spokes-bore" for work and pensions is looking for a glamorous re-launch.
4. Mr Fox - What was the Health Secretary really up to on Hampstead Heath? And has Charles met his match in the PM's Press Secretary?
5. Country Life - The Real Country Union and Gareth Hunt tests Charles' belief that he can spin the unspinnable...
6. Crash and Burn - Charles' strategy to save the career of a comedian is as unethical as it is shocking.