EXCLUSIVE: Despite the appearance of stars like Hugh Bonneville and Chelsey Crisp , there is a certain mundanity to the set of the BBC ’s Twenty Twenty Six . Even the fake Miami skyline can’t quite arrest this feeling.
That is because Deadline is checking out the follow-up to John Morton ’s BAFTA-winning BBC satirical comedies Twenty Twelve and W1A , shows that have landed cult status for their excruciating ode to Britishness and in-depth examination of the behind-the-scenes machinations of public institutions. Skyline or no skyline, the success of these shows is derived, more than anything, from poking fun at bureaucracy.
Twenty Twelve spotlighted the organizing team behind the London Olympics, W1A embarked on a wonderfully meta examination of the BBC (staffers to