Twenty twelve : review

You may have noticed there's an Olympics in London next year.
The BBC (the UK Olympic broadcasters) have been making a bit of a fuss for a fair few years.
And now there's a mock-fly-on-the-wall comedy series about it.
This sort of approach isn't exactly original (and the BBC are alleged to have "borrowed" the idea from an Australian series in the build-up to the 2000 games- here is an excellent sketch from The Games so you can judge for yourself).
However the joy of Twenty Twelve is in the execution.
David Tennant's narration is fun as is Hugh Bonneville but the great treat is Jessica Hynes in arguably her greatest comic turn since Spaced. She plays a vacuous incompetent "head of brand". Stunningly vacuous.

The show reminds me very much of People Like Us - a gentler precursor to The Thick Of It - but alas it's unlikely to be repeated due to star Chris Langham's conviction for downloading very dodgy images.
There'll always be a market for sweetly satiric work comedy and this is a solid enough example of it.
And there's some surprising cameos as well as a better Olympic logo than the "Lisa Simpson" one we're stuck with in this reality...