CATCH A LOVER WITH BBC SERIES
At the same time, the series works beyond those “in the know” because it instinctively reminds many of us of office life: middle managers of obscure purpose and large pay packet the tendency of the undeserving to be promoted, leaving less politically attuned, but frequently more able, folk in their wake flirtations and rivalries played out by the watercooler IT muddles. So many scenes in W1A have been horribly plausible: the episode in which an intern sits through four years worth of Top Gear to count how many times Jeremy Clarkson uses the word “tosser” was aired days after a certain incident in a hotel precipitated that presenter’s departure from the BBC. It punctures the BBC so very beautifully: that particular aspect of the BBC that involves employees getting horribly tangled in knots of their own, basically well-meaning, creation. Alan Yentob did seem always to be carrying his fold-up bike, the preferred mode of transportation of W1A’s Ian Fletcher Thus it was that I felt I was locked inside some bizarre comic metastructure of Morton’s fiendish devising.
“MPs say BBC bosses lied to Parliament about obscene pay-offs.” He informed me that someone had just paid five figures in a charity auction to dine with him and Jude Law and while I was there, his assistant had a chat with him about a cameo he had been asked to play in an upcoming episode of W1A, in which employees in search of a meeting room open a door to find him, Yentob, inside with a very famous person (who turned out to be Salman Rushdie). He was sitting with his feet on the desk, on which was propped an Alan Yentob mask.
Once I visited Yentob in his office, which itself had been improvised out of an unused kitchen.
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