Friday, April 6, 2012

Hugh Bonneville: Fun and games: Deadline looms to appease the Algerians in Twenty Twelve (MIRROR)



The BBC mockumentary that gave the world the superb word “multiculturality” continues this week, with a looming deadline to appease the Algerians. They want the Olympic Village’s Shared Belief Centre to face Mecca, and Ian Fletcher (Hugh Bonneville) must find a way to make this happen without appearing to be giving one religion special treatment.

Happily, there’s no PR crisis so bad that it can’t be made much worse by Head Of Brand Siobhan (Jessica Hynes) lumbering in.

One of tonight’s most enjoyable performances comes from “Emergency Architect” Mike Whittaker (Neil Edmond) who, as David Tennant’s voiceover tells us, has spent “the last four years of his personal life” constructing the Olympic village and is now just one retractable minaret away from succumbing to a total nervous breakdown.

BBC AMERICA, please show this in America - please




READ MORE:  http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/staying-in/what-s-on-tv/twenty-twelve-782983



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