W10

[Doon frae Troon]

Documentary about the BBC on tonight.......should be good.:smirk:

 

[Hacker Khan]

It's W1A. First series was very funny, as was 2012, so I'm looking forwards to it. That's all good then.

The writer also has form as he wrote People Like Us back in the late 90s, which kind of was the first mockumentary, and was damn funny.

 

[MegaSteve]

I did wonder why Doon would have an interest in Ladbroke Grove...

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Been working in the BBC Broadcasting Centre up Wood Lane for a while now - different BBC office but same I haven't yet had a meeting in the Fawlty Towers Meeting room - but looking forward to that if and when..

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I did wonder why Doon would have an interest in Ladbroke Grove...

It wasn't till the third episode that I twigged it was not for real.

Like The Brittas Empire I am convinced that the writer based his actors on some folk I have actually worked with. [In England of course]

 

[cookelad]

Going to have to watch the series to see just what goes on across the road from where I spend most of my time!

 

[Hacker Khan]

I'd argue it isn't really a mickey take of the BBC, much as 2012 wasn't really a mickey take of the Olympics. But it's more a satire on the prevalent business culture of processes, compliance and people promoted to senior positions who do not actually have any practical skills but are actually just full of bull.

I have even took the .. and used the phrase 'that's all good then' in meetings in my company, and people have just carried on as if it's a normal thing to say, even nodded in approval.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

One of my fellow managers WAS Gordon Brittas.

It used to take him 20 minutes to explain the council ticket structure for a swimming pool and gym.

 

[Rooter]

Going to have to watch the series to see just what goes on across the road from where I spend most of my time!

Westfield shopping center?

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Cool