Twenty Twelve

2011 • BBC America
4.6
53 reviews
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Season 2 episodes (7)

1 Boycott Part 1
3/30/12
Season-only
The documentary cameras continue to follow the men and women responsible for organizing the London Olympic Games as they paddle increasingly hard to keep the games on track and on budget. The Algerian Olympic team threatens to boycott the Games after discovering that the Shared Belief Center does not face Mecca.
2 Boycott Part 2
4/6/12
Season-only
The second half of a very long day. The Algerians issue a deadline of midnight for a solution to their demand for a Shared Belief Center which faces Mecca, while the French are now threatening to pull out of the Games if a separate mosque is built. The team has to come up with an idea that will please everyone.
3 Clarence House
4/13/12
Season-only
A decision must be made about the future of the Olympic Stadium, and Clarence House has asked the ODC to look at ways of linking the Twenty Twelve Olympics with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee - is "Jubilympics" the perfect branding solution?
4 The Rapper
4/20/12
Season-only
Siobhan's team design a major sexual health campaign, complete with a rap song ("Get It On"), which may upset the Catholic competitors.
5 Catastrophisation
7/10/12
Season-only
Ian chairs the final meeting of the Special Catastrophisation Unit. When someone gets caught modifying the Olympic starting pistols to fire live rounds, the news must be handled delicately.
6 Inclusivity Day
7/17/12
Season-only
The Olympic Deliverance Committee plans the launch of "Inclusivity Day" in London on the same ady as Seb Coe's "Diversity Day" in Oldham. Siobhan's team devises a viral campaign to change the face of women's football.
7 Loose Ends
7/24/12
Season-only
With ten days left to try to tie up loose ends, the Deliverance Team's problems begin to pile up.

About this show

Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Hynes, Amelia Bullmore and Olivia Colman star in this mock-documentary following the challenges - both personal and professional - faced by the team responsible for delivering the biggest show on Earth: the 2012 London Olympics. From getting a busload of non-English speaking Brazilians from A to B, who to appoint to run the Cultural Olympiad and what to do when the much-vaunted wind turbines won't turn because there's no wind, it's all in a day's work for the men and women whose job it is to stage the greatest sporting event in the world.

Ratings and reviews

4.6
53 reviews
Will Wonka
August 23, 2013
If you like satire, get it now! Think the thick of it but much more subtle in delivery.....very accurate in depicting the minority enforced / PC ruled nation and `keep em all happy` idiocy that exists in Britain today....all wonderfully captured by a fantastic cast.
R F
August 31, 2013
Never watch this when you are eating because when I watched it at a friends house he actually choked. My favourite programme
Stephen Simpson
May 23, 2015
Brilliantly observed satire, with a subtlety that makes The Office seem like The Three Stooges.