VIDEO: Preview Clips From W1A Featuring David Tennant



The BBC have released a selection of preview clips from the first episode of new comedy W1A. The series follows on from the award winning spoof documentary Twenty Twelve and sees Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes reprising their roles as Ian Fletcher and Siobhan Sharpe, capitalising on their success in bringing the London Olympic Games to fruition by taking on new roles in the BBC. David Tennant also returns to supply a deadpan narration.

In the first clip, Ian Fletcher chairs the first ever meeting of the Way Ahead Task Force Group:




The second clip sees Ian reunited with Siobhan Sharpe:



The third clip finds Ian attending a digital handshake session for new BBC staff



W1A begins tonight at 10pm on BBC Two

Episode 1
With the London games of Twenty Twelve successfully delivered, Ian Fletcher starts a new chapter in his life as head of values at the BBC.
Ian's first challenge on arriving at New Broadcasting House, on his brand new and much-improved folding bike, is to find somewhere to sit in a building aggressively over-designed around the principle of not having a desk.
Ian finds himself holding the hottest of hot potatoes when Mebyan Kernow activist Nigel Trescott complains that Cornwall, and the Cornish, are shamefully under-represented on the BBC.
Things get worse when BBC Spotlight South West presenter Sally Wingate goes public with her feeling that her failure to progress to a national presenting role might be part of the BBC's institutionally anti-Cornish bias.
Ideas of how best to limit the damage lead to PR company Perfect Curve's Siobhan Sharpe suggesting Sally should do something on Snog, Marry, Avoid or some kind of Bake Off.
Meanwhile, producer Lucy Freeman is having meetings with head of output Anna Rampton and entertainment format creative David Wilkes about a forthcoming new flagship show - Britain's Tastiest Village - which, according to David, is 'kind of Britain's Got Talent meets Countryfile with a bit of The One Show thrown in just in case'.
Anna wants a progress report and there's good news and bad news. They've virtually got Alan Titchmarsh on board now, but the very bad news is that it looks like they've lost Clare Balding - 'words you never ever want to hear' - as the dates of How Big is Your Dog, a new show she's doing for ITV, have changed at the last minute.



For more information about the series, including character profiles and cast interviews visit the BBC Media Centre



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