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W1A Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 2015 - 2015
Episode 1
Episode #2.1
58 mins
One year on and Head of Values Ian Fletcher has finally got his own office. He and the team have a new set of challenges to rise to, including the impending Royal visit of HRH The Prince of Wales. The question is, which of the management team will get to shake the royal hand? Head of BBC Brand Siobhan Sharpe and her team at Perfect Curve have been tasked with giving a makeover to the BBC coverage of Wimbledon following rumours of a bid from a rival broadcaster. Her response is a brand mashup to end all brand mashups. Meanwhile, over on the creative frontline, Entertainment Format Producer David Wilkes is trying to come up with the next big Factual Entertainment series after Britain's Tastiest Village failed to fly. He's got the title - Up Town, Down Town - he just hasn't got a show, or a cast. Finally, intern Will Humphries' security pass won't let him into the building: is it a technical problem or something more significant?
Episode 2
Episode #2.2
28 mins
Head of Values Ian is chosen to chair the Damage Limitation meeting, one of whose tasks is to decide whether news reporter Evan Davis should appear in Strictly Come Dancing. Siobhan is enthusiastic but nobody else is. The Director General's proposal that the team joins a Pilates class also meets with a mixed reception. Producer Lucy Freeman is so frustrated by the stupidity of department heads that she considers leaving the BBC whilst Will, now Ian's official P.A., annoys another young assistant Jack by making his admiration for colleague Izzy all too obvious. Meanwhile Anna Rampton, Head of Output, is confirmed as the inaugural Head of Better, though nobody seems to know what it entails.
Episode 3
Episode #2.3
29 mins
Siobhan proposes her own idiotic way of announcing Anna's new post as Head of Better, which is reluctantly accepted. Lucy approaches Anna, with a view to tender her resignation, and is surprised when Anna offers her the job of Head of Inclusivity, a possible escape for her from producing daft rolling entertainment head David Wilkes' ill-thought out 'One Big Family' show. However nobody seems to know what the role involves and Director of Strategic Governance Simon Harwood only confuses the issue with his proposed new management structure - which gets rejected in favour of one accidentally invented by Will. At the party to launch her new post Anna objects to reading a last minute speech from Siobhan, panics and locks herself in the toilet. it is left to Ian to talk her out.
Episode 4
Episode #2.4
29 mins
Ian chairs another Way Ahead meeting, this time welcoming Lucy in her new role as Head of Inclusivity - or would if the new computer system would let him into the board room, requiring a quick change of venue. Lucy wants to ensure a proportion of gay and black employees in the corporation and, due to daft Siobhan, Asian weather man Sadiq Iqbal becomes a You Tube heart throb, requiring Ian to bring in newsreader Azia Zamani to restore the gender balance. Clueless David asks Izzy for ideas for his useless 'One Big Family' show, since it has nothing beyond a title but, much to Jack's annoyance, Izzy is impressed when Will inadvertently comes up with a winning TV formula for a new cycling-based series.
