W1A

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Is anyone else a fan?

I've namechanged in honour of it

So many good things about it, I may have to watch again. Loved the ref to a David Walliams tweet re the crap cross dressing football bloke.

The voiceover is priceless in this show.

'The Department for Culture, Media and for some reason also Sport'.

Reminds me, the new DCMS Scottish woman was very funny, and Chloe and Zoe.

episode one has already been taken off I player and u tube just show old previews. I forgot to watch last week.

The80s it was still there when I looked this afternoon.

I rewatched some of series 2 the other day. I'd forgotten that Will was only supposed to be there on his internship for 8 weeks and stayed for 11 months and no one noticed

will is very sweet - when he said that his sister knew Wilfred jo songa, the tennis star, their jaws dropped.

The actor that plays Will was also Fleabag's boyfriend.

really? he was in that? i watched Fleabag and didnt remember him at all.

I'm not being funny or anything, but episode one made me laugh. Its a little gem. Yeah.

Oh yes he was great in fleabag.

I hope something happens with Ian/Lucy or they stop it completely, I feel like every episode ends up with them being a tiny bit flirty but then this series Anna has always turned up so Lucy leaves. It's getting a bit repetitive!

yes, i hope that lucy manages to get Ian alone without Anna creeping around. she is even scaring me.

I've already said this but last series ended with Anna and Ian going to dinner, so this 'triangle' hasn't just started this series.

ahh, i didnt know that about Anna, no wonder she is giving lucy evil looks.
Siobhan is brilliant and i liked the cross dressing presenter too, he was funny.
My favourite is the welsh lady though.

Love the voiceover in the hotel scenes. 'Quiet nuts'

They could have all stayed at home and watched that match of the day on the tele along with everyone else. they didnt really need to be there.
makes me wonder how much money they waste in these big corporations/

DP and I struggle to watch this as it's a little bit close to home. Cringe

I can imagine that all this management speak is just rife in the media industry. My dh is an engineer for a big company and he said its not too bad there - they tend to be a more normal in meetings.
it is the ones who do this though that seem to get on and become really high up, so maybe he is doing it all wrong!

@Tinycitrus (I am not stalking you today honest!)
DP and I struggle to watch this as it's a little bit close to home. Cringe smile

Similarly, I watch Silicon Valley* from behind my hands as feel like I am living that most days.

(* Another hugely under-rated show)

I know. The 'meetings' in W1A are so well observed. It's all so awful but credible too. DP can only cope with one episode at a time.

Ahh yes Rhiannon I'd forgotten that Anna was involved last series too. Just bloody ask her out Ian!!

Yes loved Tracy in the previous episode. "Clive said something about having to talk those up their arse upper management types in London. I'd like to say that those were his words not mine." but you still said them Tracy!

So many managers, not quite sure what they all do though ( which is the point, i do know this..)
dh said its the same in his place.

I was delighted to hear that DH's workplace has both a Head of Transformation and also, inexplicably, a Head of Change

CanI so Transformation is not Change? And Change is not Transformation. My cheese has definitely been moved

I love the oneupmanship about who last spoke to Tony. And in general I adore Simon 'Yes very good, very strong' Harwood - I love his laconic 'well, you'll know better than me how you want to handle this .. ' absolutely classic Teflon shouldering, usually on to Ian.

Anna kissed Ian in the loo, have we covered this? And I think Lucy fancies him as well, although I cannot imagine why.

Shame they haven't had any of the Downton cast on, that'd be funny. But the cameos generally are excellent.

I've worried so far this series that it might be getting a bit close to parodying itself. Have we had too many meetings which consist of everyone saying their catchphrases to each other? The series is longer than previous ones, though, so they may be setting the storylines up a bit slower.