His late-90s first screen mockumentary People Like Us – developed from a BBC radio series that was his big break as a writer, having ditched a career as an English teacher – featured a deeply earnest narrator-interviewer following everyday Britons through a typical working day.
Morton’s mid-to-late 2010s show W1A went inside the BBC, mercilessly mocking the office politics of the public broadcaster. In W1A’s three seasons, Hugh Bonneville played mild-mannered executive Ian Fletcher, grappling with his role as head of values.
Fletcher had first appeared in the earlier Morton series Twenty Twelve, where he was head of deliverance for the fictional Olympic Deliverance Commission. Two seasons were made in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics. It wasn’t the first show to mockument a games bureaucracy. The “marked conceptual similarities” to his own late-90s mockumentary The Games, in the lead-up to Sydney 2000, miffed comedian/writer John Clarke, who said he had been involved in almost four years of phone conferences and email exchanges with then-BBC comedy head Jon Plowman, who had brought Morton in as a writer, from 2006.
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