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Thursday, April 26, 2012

London 2012 Olympics: 100 days celebrations were just another example of life painfully imitating BBC art Seldom has the vapidity of PR-speak been so exquisitely skewered as in the BBC’s Olympics mockumentary, Twenty Twelve.By Oliver Brown8:40AM BST 26 Apr 201 (TELEGRAPH)




Head of brand Siobhan Sharpe’s notion of a 'Jubilympics’ — conflating the Games with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee — is staggeringly inane and yet contains an alarming ring of truth.

For the phrase 'symphony of inspiration’, wheeled out to mark London’s 100-days-to-go staging post in real life, has the fingerprints of Sharpe and her 'Perfect Curve’ spoof agency all over it.

Sadly, we must wait until the eve of London 2012 to see a third series on the antics of Ian Fletcher, played with a beautiful careworn nuance by Hugh Bonneville, and his ominously-titled Olympics Deliverance Commission.

For the second tranche of four episodes, brought to a comic peak last week by rapper Mini Steppah’s 'Get It On’ song about sexual health in the Olympic village, reinforced the sense that this programme performed a valuable public service.

While it lacked the caustic bile of The Thick of It, it sought at least to redress the glaring irony deficiency at the heart of Games bureaucracy.

READ MORE:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9227082/London-2012-Olympics-100-days-celebrations-were-just-another-example-of-life-painfully-imitating-BBC-art.html



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