This works as a short sketch only. It is a single gag that is repeated ad nauseam and after only three episodes I could take no more. It is painful to watch and frankly not worthy of fine actors, Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes. For example, the conference suite scenes have the same structure and outcome every time - only the dialogue (such that it is) varies. The Head of Security character is unbelievable and just isn't funny, the Intern is just annoyingly hopeless. Several scenes are just a waste of time and banal in the extreme. It's altogether unbearable and unfunny.

The show does capture the uselessness of corporate culture, its incessant meetings, and predictable committee members. The problem is that after a while, it becomes repetitive and tedious to watch. Even though each episode may bring a new business challenge, the repetitiveness of action and thought by the characters becomes boring, causing the viewer to just disengage. After a while, I just watched the episodes on an "ad hoc" basis to provide padding for my binge watching of other series that I did not wish to finish too quickly because they were so good. By padding it with this mindless material, the better series lasted me for a longer period of time!

From the makers of Twenty Twelve which starred Hugh Bonneville as Ian Fletcher the rather out of his depth Head of Deliverance for the 2012 London Olympics. He now returns as the bumbling Head of Values at the BBC since he managed to deliver the Olympics successfully. He also teams up again with Jessica Hynes, now the shallow PR chief at the BBC with daft ideas.David Tennant returns as the narrator, deadpan and times certainly literal.After a rough few years where an incoming BBC director general lasted a few weeks, the Charter renewal the BBC decides to turn the gaze on itself for comedic effect. Of course you have endless meetings where we meet the sycophants as well as the schemers and you quickly feel that Ian is out of his depth again as mad corporate ideas are floated around. You had episodes where he had no desk to sit on or even a room to hold a meeting, trying to evade various media backlashes such as when his pay grade was made public and even managed to get lost at the BBC building when an important royal visitor is arrived.The stand out character was Will, the gormless intern only fit for bringing the coffee and carrying a fold-able bike.However by the second series I felt the series ran out of steam. Tennant's narration became predictable and so did some of the characters and their mostly annoying ways, quirks and catchphrases. It did not even run to the full six episode series which indicates that the writers had run out of material. Still Ian Fletcher did manage to get his act together and amaze everyone at end with his delivery.

I found this very funny and very true. I worked at BBC Future Media (and other parts of the BBC) and recognise a number of these senior managers. The caricatures are not far removed from reality. On the creative side, you might think the show was cruel. Not really, they used to have weekly "creative sessions" in my kitchen area. There's nothing like the sight of desperate 40-somethings trying to come up with something young and hip to make you wish you were far, far away from the commissioning process and the necessary obliges noblesses! The meeting rooms, "Strictly Come Dancing" and "Top Gear" and so on, and Syncopatispace is beyond parody. This show is almost exactly like working there.