Just realised, new series of W1A starts tonight; yeah cool, brilliant, brilliant !
So that’s all good.
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Just realised, new series of W1A starts tonight; yeah cool, brilliant, brilliant !
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Hooray! Still cherish the scene where Will the incompetent intern can be seen in the background folding up the bike, without fuss or comment.
Have to say that Will has superseded Siobhan as my favourite character (might have something to do with the fact that I’m just off to talk to a bunch of 2nd year students about work experience).
Too satisfied with itself for me. Not funny either. Apart from that…
I agree . The Botney arm-wrestling thing showed it up for what it is – an extended Comic Relief sketch.
Jessica Hynes is a honey, tho.
However everyone who has worked in large organisations recognises immediately, IMHO, the truth behind:
the consultant paid a tenner to sell you your own watch. ‘B-B-C’ – get it
the hapless intern
the senior manager who adopts every other idea as his/her own if they think they’ll impress those above, and to anything else ‘ooh that’s terribly brave’ and jealously guards access to the chief exec
the perpetually harrassed press officer for whom every day is a fire fight because senior staff say and do ridiculous things.
it’s the corporate b….cks that’s at the heart of 2012 /W1A… ‘I’ve just got out of a meeting with Tony/Seb and let me tell you how excited he was by (unsaid your) idea’
Exactly so.
John Morton was the genius behind People Like Us. Neither 2012 nor W1A is quite up to those standards (no need for those sleb cameos, for a start), but very few writers put the English language through the mangle quite like him. He can do very little wrong as far as I’m concerned.
Did any of our Antipodean contingent watch “The Games”, the comedy about the Sidney Olympics with John Clarke and Bryan Dawe? I hadn’t heard of it, but it seems 2012 was a little too similar for their liking.
Never seen it before, its on in the background now. On first viewing, it reminds me of the office – but not as funny/ original.
People Like Us was before The Office and has been fairly ripped off by many a show. Interestingly enough a young David Tennant was the subject of one of the PLU episodes and now does the voiceover for W1A. More BBC cronyism!
Top drawer acting, writing and sense of ridiculousness that is apparent in all large organisations.
I’m glad somebody has finally said that! Wish I could remember the R4 series it grew out of.
The mock-doc was properly invented, however, by Spinal Tap.
In fact rumour has it that the 3rd series of People Like Us was turned down in favour of making the 1st series if The Office.
The radio series had the same title didn’t it?
There was also a Stephen Fry series called Delve \ This Is David Lander which did some similar spoof documentary, or if you will, mockumentary
Anyway, enough of my yakkin
The radio series did indeed have the same title, and several of the professions covered were the same. I think it still gets repeated on the BBC repeats station – used to be BBC7, now 4 Extra or something similar. Likewise Delve Special, the Stephen Fry series that was more of a Panorama/Roger Cook investigative thing but also pretty good.
Last night’s episode was really funny in parts, but an hour was waaaay too long. I must say I thought some of the ‘BBC Winbledon’ ideas from the Perfect Curve brainstorming session actually sounded quite entertaining – love the notion of the Djokovic/Murray point-winning theme tunes 😉
Agreed; monkey butter anyone.
A bit too much padding in one hour, 30 mins is best, and Perfect Curve’s ideas will happen – just give it time.
Just watched it. Painful. Sara Pascoe was the only redeeming feature.