W1A - 'Twenty Twelve' takes on the BBC

A lot of W1A was funny although am I the only one who thought the exterior helicopter shots etc. went on a bit too long and too often

I'm sure I have seen them before on BBC News?

Did anyone else see the orange BBC Daytime logo? Never saw that before.

I agree with the comment about it being smug. I also didn't find it remotely funny, which is a shame as I loved Twenty Twelve. It seems like they've taken all of the weakest elements of that (Siobhan for example) and stretched it out.

Definitely not. There was one especially odd one, shot from a helicopter of Broadcasting House then just of wandering off. Also the music for those bits is too loud - that was also an issue I had with Twenty Twelve.

It wasn't just wondering off, it went with the narration, something like "Across London..." before showing a scene with Carol Voderman in the cafe.

Not to be tedious, but it doesn't. It's "Meanwhile, elsewhere...somewhere in central London", and the restaurant they're at is a 5 minute walk from Broadcasting House.

I was half expecting a scene at TVC as that seemed to be the direction the helicopter was heading.

That would have been a better way of doing it, but in fact the narration doesn't come in until after they're in the cafe and everyone's been introduced, leaving the helicopter shot to come off as almost random/coincidental.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b03yvf3r/?t=14m24s

The highlight was definitely Ian walking in on Salman Rushdie and Alan Yentob having an arm wrestle.

I did also find the helicopter shot into Central London a tad long, wondering what it was about until the narration came in.

As someone who's spent some time in the BBC of late, I thought W1A was on the ball in regards to 'taking the piss' out the BBC's working environment, such as the hot desk and the difficulty finding spaces to use.

There's also a shot of Broadcasting House with the clock going backwards at 19:04

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03yvf3r/w1a-episode-1

this one:

http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/identzone/bbc2/images/bbc2_stripe_daytime.jpg

I think they used to introduce Schools Programmes over that after they ditched the countdown clock (though a 10-0 caption was superimposed over this for a time ISTR).

He's probably referring to the "BBC Daytime" logo in the style of the present channel logos which can be seen around NBH. It comes from the fact that within the BBC, daytime on BBC One and Two is essentially treated as a separate channel with its own controller.

http://i61.tinypic.com/112bofq.jpg