Review: Twenty Twelve

Hugh Bonneville Comedy Doesn't Live Up To Its Potential
Washington Post

With so much potential, it’s a small bummer to watch Twenty Twelve (BBC America, 9pm) strain against the usual tropes of Office-like, Ricky Gervais-style improv.



As Ian, Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey’s Earl of Grantham) is a determined bureaucrat surrounded by half-wits — such as Siobhan (Jessica Hynes), who, as “head of brand,” hires a hipster webmaster who can’t spell “Olympic” and an avant-garde artist who builds a giant alarm clock that counterintuitively “counts down” to 2012 by simply ticking forward.