Twenty Twelve

[David Johnson]

Saw an episode of this Beeb comedy on the Iplayer which is about planning for the 2012 Olympics, entitled Catastrophisation. It was centred on news that someone was adapting starter pistols to take live rounds and the security relationships with the States. I thought it was really good.

Later the same night I saw an interview with Jeremy Hunt, the Tory minister, on Newsnight, talking about the G4S security debacle in which 8 or 9 police forces had to get involved throughout the country to supply policemen when G4S security people just didnt turn up e.g. something like 17 out of 50 odd turned up to guard a Manchester hotel hosting Olympic football teams.

It was a bit like watching a continuation of the Twenty Twelve comedy.

Anyway, next episode is 10pm tonight on Beeb2. Worth a view.

[spider]

Absolutely fantastic programme.

Here's a copy of my previous post commending it.

I'm a big fan of Twenty Twelve (the TV Programme).

I don't think they can call it "2012" though because the International Olympic Committee own the phrase
"2012".

You'll notice they never show the Olympic rings on the TV Programme
because the IOC own that as well.

The TV Programme is beginning to look like a documentary though. I
remember they said as a joke on the TV Programme "I'm proud to
announce today that our principal torch bearer will be Peter Andre".

Who do they have in real life, Cliff Richard, Gary Lineker, Jedward,
Heston Blumenthal, Will I Am (it's William mate - get a dictionary),
and Keith Lemon.

Keith Lemon, that's funnier than Peter Andre!

I hear they had a storyline ready which had the premise that the Army
wanted to put Surface to Air missiles on top of a block of flats as
part of Olympic security preparations, but they abandoned it as too
far-fetched!

Here's an extract from the Daily Telegraph review.

As with all the finest satire, this series, written and directed by
John Morton, creates a preposterous fiction that is horribly
believable. Indeed, looking back, I find myself getting confused as to
which bizarre goings-on took place in the fictional world of Twenty
Twelve and which actually happened. Did the organisers of the Olympics really consider wrapping a giant condom advertisement around the Orbit
tower? Will there truly be a pub on the site that serves only soft
drinks manufactured by one of the event sponsors?

[David Johnson]

Sorry, I missed your post, otherwise I would have started watching earlier.

I had a search on the iplayer and unfortunately they only seem to show the most recent episode.

[andy at handiwork]

You mean it isn't a REAL fly on the wall documentary?

[David Johnson]

Nah, too far-fetched. Apparently, one episode had an official bus driven by a Nottingham man who did not understand the sat nav directions and got lost.

Unbelievable in real life!

[Phil Phee]

Most chillingly, for a jaded, cynical 40 year old who has spent his entire adult life in East London, "Perfect Curve" (2012's preferred trendy marketing / PR types) perfectly echo the sufeit of "artistic" (autistic?) trendies that swamp what were once the most UNfashionable areas of a host olympc borough: Dalston, Hoxton & Shoreditch.

Grrr!

cf: Nathan Barley