The review, to be headed by the chief medical officer, Sir HarryBurns, will include independent experts from the Scottish Drugs Strategy Delivery Commission.
Dr. HarryBurns said that raising the price of alcohol, and reducing its availability through licensing, would be examples of how Scotland's alcohol mortality rate, could be brought down.
The Thick Of It is one of five programmes to receive three nominations - alongside The Graham Norton Show, Rev, Cardinal Burns and Harry Hill's TV Burp, which broadcast its last ever episode in March.