It’s not hard to draw a straight line from Charles Dickens to Armando Iannucci. In each there’s a passion for human frailty and absurdity, and, above all, a richness of people. Nobody filled pages with a vivid cast of characters like Dickens, so who better to take a shot at David Copperfield than the man behind the teeming ensembles of Veep, In the Loop and The Death of Stalin?
