Twenty Twelve - BBC4
1/6, series 1, Monday 14 March 10:00pm - 10:30pm John Morton, writer/director behind People like Us and Broken News, has a potential hit on his hands with this timely, engaging docuspoof. Narrated by David Tennant, it charts the bungling activities of the Olympic Deliverance Commission, a small team led by Ian Fletcher (redoubtable Hugh Bonneville), whose task is to smooth the run-up to 2012. On this week's agenda: nominating national heroes to be torchbearers (so that's, erm, Alan Sugar, Bruce Forsyth, Gok Wan...) and repurposing the tae kwon do stadium after the Games. Every character in the ODC team shows promise, with Jessica Hynes amusingly maddening as PR bod Siobhan Sharp, whose assertiveness is exceeded only by her ineptitude ("Matthew Pinsent? I don't even know who that is"). She ends up babbling at the Tate Modern launch of her pet project - a hideous, green clock that mystifyingly counts backwards from 2012 to today. Seb and Boris, of course, get frequent name-checks and at least one of them will show up later in the series. It's a runner.
Radio Times reviewer - Patrick Mulkern
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Subtitled, Widescreen, Audio-describedCast * Ian Fletcher - Hugh Bonneville
* Kay Hope - Amelia Bullmore
* Sally Owen - Olivia Colman
* Nick Jowett - Vincent Franklin
* Siobhan Sharpe - Jessica Hynes
* Graham Hitchins - Karl Theobald
* Barney Lumsden - Alex Beckett
* Shaquille Johnson - Marcus Onilude
* Anthony Preston - Nicholas Gleaves
* Journalist - Leila Farzad
* Narrator - David Tennant
Directed by: John Morton
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