He served as Head of Deliverance at the London Olympics in Twenty Twelve, then bounced straight into the role of the BBC’s Head of Values in W1A. Now Hugh Bonneville’s affably perma-bemused exec Ian Fletcher has another tenuous job title – one that will take him across the Atlantic to Miami where, presumably, run-ins with Clare Balding will take up far less space in his working week.
In BBC Two’s Twenty Twenty Six, the latest Ian-centric comedy from writer John Morton, our everyman has just been installed as Director of Integrity for the Twenty Twenty Six Oversight Team, in charge of putting on the next World Cup. Or W***d C*p, as it becomes here, with all mentions of F*fa and its tournament bleeped out like expletives, in what’s either a recurring gag or an abundance of caution; in a very meta move, you can imagine Ian’s former BBC colleagues sitting in interminable meetings about this very decision.
