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Twenty Twenty Six

Comedy

Created by John Morton

Following on from his role at the BBC, Ian Fletcher leads the Oversight team behind the 2026 FIFA World Cup as the Director of Integrity. A spoof mockumentary following the organisation of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. From TMDB

38 reactions from 2 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Jul 23, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works

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The series received generally positive reviews from critics. Sarah Dempster of The Guardian dubbed the series "a missed opportunity" but complimented Michalik's performance and Tennant's narration. The Telegraph's Benji Wilson was more positive, awarding four out of five stars. Writing in The Times, Ben Dowell also awarded four stars, calling Twenty Twenty Six "another very funny comedy". On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 15 critics' reviews are positive. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the series a score of 74 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally favourable" reviews.

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  • Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.comBluesky · Jul 23, 2026

    The UK TV series “Twenty Twelve”, “W1A”, and “Twenty Twenty Six” are full of these too. Like “Let’s nail this puppy to the floor”.

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  • David Tennant @davidtennant1971.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2026

    David Tennant provides the narration for the comedy series Twenty Twenty Six which starts tonight on BBC Two at 10pm. There will be 6 weekly episodes. #DavidTennant

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  • jessica @[email protected]Mastodon · Apr 20, 2026

    1. Went grocery shopping 🛒 2. Finished watching #TwentyTwentySix 📺 3. Played #QuiltsAndCatsOfCalico 🖥️ #ThreeGoodThings

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  • Steve (low effort Halloween name edition) 👻 @chompmancobra.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2026

    If you pay money to see Morrissey in Future Year Twenty Twenty Six then the show being cancelled is better than you deserve. I hope you also get kidney stones.

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  • Lara @lara102.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2026

    Twenty Twenty Six is now on iPlayer. David is narrating the series.

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  • Cecily W. @skeskali.caBluesky · May 5, 2026

    Remember Twenty Twelve, the BBC show that spoofed the London Olympics Organizing Committee? Well, there's a new one called Twenty Twenty Six about the World Cup, and as it's about the World Cup, there are American and Canadian cast members. youtu.be/L4ioZpDUTfo?...

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  • Amy McGrath @smallmegapixel.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 1, 2026

    Listen to David Tennant as he does the narration in the trailer for the six-part BBC Two mockumentary series 'Twenty Twenty Six,' featuring Hugh Bonneville and Hugh Skinner.

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  • Lara @lara102.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 1, 2026

    New trailer for Twenty Twenty Six. David returns as the narrator for this new six-part comedy series, a follow-up to Twenty Twelve and W1A. The show follows Ian Fletcher as he heads to Miami to oversee the 2026 World Cup. Twenty Twenty Six will come to BBC IPlayer on April 8th.

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  • Janet MacKenzie @janmakarta.eurosky.socialBluesky · Apr 18, 2026

    After ungritting my teeth, I'm making another attempt at watching BBC's Twenty Twenty-Six. It seems it's achieving the virtually impossible - making US corporate culture even more cringeworthy than it already was. This may be a compliment to the series; my personal jury is still out.

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  • Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2026

    If nothing else good comes of the World Cup at least we got the show Twenty Twenty Six - very funny stuff

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  • DoubleTreble 🥰🇵🇸🌍🇺🇦😺💚🧶🫖 @[email protected]Mastodon · May 15, 2026

    @cupofteasocial #mugshot Good morning lovely people 💕💕 Happy Friday everyone 😁 We had a very lazy day yesterday my main preoccupation was my crochet 🧶 and not causing myself too much pain 😭 I'm having to give the shop a miss today, We Watched the last episode of #TwentyTwentySix last night so funny 🤣🤣 Will is just a gem !!

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  • 🕊GIVE PEACE A CHANCE🕊🏳️‍🌈☮️🇺🇦 @dogcatcher4.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2026

    There's a BBC series called 'Twenty Twenty Six' depicting a group of morons in Miami, sitting around planning the arrival of the World Cup! It's stunning in that they just talk all day & come up with nothing concrete! In the end, we always get it wrong! It's all about ego & empty leaps on a whim!

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  • K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2026

    watched the first episode of Twenty Twenty Six (in the Twenty Twelve & W1A space w/ Hugh Bonneville). In a sense not a bad satire on management (as the others are) but the spectre of Trump hangs over the whole thing now www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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  • Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2026

    ⚽️ From W1A to the USA - what could possibly go wrong? The cast of Twenty Twenty Six reveal all about the new series. Yes, no, yes. Very good. Very strong. More 👇🏻

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  • Lara @lara102.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 25, 2026

    "He's exactly the same: utterly delightful, so quick," he promised. "I sometimes forget until the very last bit of [production] what a big note in the overall music of the show he is... So we're super grateful for David." Twenty Twenty Six is coming soon to BBC Two and iPlayer.

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  • Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 19, 2025

    Yeah, no worries, yeah, cool, say again? Will Humphries is in Director of Integrity Ian Fletcher's starting 11 for Twenty Twenty Six! Here's your first look at the new series and the yes, no, good, very strong cast. Yes, no, yes ➡️ bbc.in/46IPPIF

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  • Janet MacKenzie @janmakarta.eurosky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2026

    I had to pause the BBC's Twenty Twenty-Six. Right now, I'm finding the American corporate culture satirised in the series simply impossible to bear. Even though I know it is indeed satire.

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  • Nic Boothby @nicboothby.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2026

    PSA for those who like to binge TV series... ALL 6 EPISODES OF TWENTY TWENTY SIX ARE ON BBC iplayer NOW!!! Series 1: 1. Semi-Finals: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002stzz

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  • Billey 🐻⬇️ @zwquestie.bsky.socialBluesky · May 26, 2026

    Erin Kelleyman is in a new show called Twenty Twenty Six. It's a BBC show, kind of a "the Office" feel. The premise is the discussions around the World Cup & how to get things ready & they always bleep the name FIFA, which makes me think of bleeping the word fucking. Which with everything....

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  • DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.socialBluesky · May 26, 2026

    This was recognised in the great BBC series "Twenty Twenty Six" www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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  • reni 🦌 @reniadeb.comBluesky · Apr 12, 2026

    THEY ARE DOING ANOTHER SERIES OF W1A (IT'S CALLED TWENTY TWENTY SIX) AND NOBODY TOLD ME ABOUT THIS? I'M UNFOLLOWING ALL OF YOU SNAKES RIGHT NOW

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  • K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 11, 2026

    Hooray. Watching Episode 4 of Twenty Twenty Six. DEI is mentioned (correctly) as Diversity, Equality & Inclusion. Whoever inserted 'Equity' at some point can FO www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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  • Losd @losdemas.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2026

    Is the football WC in the toilet? **** won't say, but TWENTY TWENTY SIX might just reveal all. Great first episode. Full series already available on BBC iPlayer. So that's all good, then. Twenty Twenty Six, Ian Fletcher: A Career: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002v2cq via @bbciplayer

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  • Jay Richardson @jayirichardson.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 19, 2025

    W1A's Ian Fletcher to return in World Cup series Twenty Twenty Six: www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8400...

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  • Heidi in Montana @inmontana.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 12, 2026

    Did you watch W1A? Was it big in England? Americans seem to be clueless about it, but I think it's a classic. Watching Twenty Twenty Six here at my mother's in Denver ... not nearly as sharp. It's upsetting that all Alan Partridge series are now impossible to see here. Guess I need a VPN.

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  • Randy Luckham 🇨🇦 @horsepharmer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2026

    Watch the BritBox 6 episode series: Twenty Twenty Six. The chaotic behind the scenes FIFA portrayal seems quite plausible.

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  • Billey 🐻⬇️ @zwquestie.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 2, 2026

    There's a show from BBC on tubi called "Twenty Twenty Six." You cant look it up using 2026, u have to use the words. The premise is getting things together for the W0rld €up, deciding which cities to have games, environmental issues, social media. It has the same feel as "the Office," with...

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  • Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyBluesky · May 14, 2026

    It’s so much fun to see Hugh Bonneville not playing that insufferable Robert Crawley—Julian Fellowes’ most sickeningly sainted aristocrat. (Watching TWENTY TWENTY SIX while I chill in the pool.)

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  • George Luke @georgeluke.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 15, 2026

    I think of the reasons Twenty Twenty Six didn’t work for me was the lack of Bromptons in Miami.* (*Assuming they didn’t all show up after I’d switched off)

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  • Nicolas Chinardet @[email protected]Mastodon · Apr 13, 2026

    I was excited when I heard about #TwentyTwentySix, having enjoyed the previous series on the Olympics and the BBC, but this is somehow not working. Don't know if I've grown out of it, or if it's because it's about the F*** World C**, but it's just not even amusing :/

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  • Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 10, 2026

    There should be a golden mean. Which means good, sympathetic but honest ongoing communication. The opposite of communication of the "Twenty-Twelve/W1A/Twenty Twenty Six" kind (not sure if you or the others have seen the latest series with Bonneville & Co. Horribly near the knuckle again!

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  • Rachel In That London @rachelondon.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2026

    Watched the first Twenty Twenty Six episode and laughed not once, not twice but thrice! (Phil Neville joke, Ashley Cole joke, the whole of the Miami First meeting). Which is more than I did at the entire series of W1A.

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  • Philip Lickley @philiplickley.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2026

    Spoof BBC comedy series, Twenty Twenty Six, is to take on the World Cup, with Hugh Bonneville reprising his role as Ian Fletcher. Things take a dark turn in episode one when he launches a war against one of the participants… oh no, that’s real life… #BTNNB #BreakingTheNews

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  • Showbiz Central @showbizcentral.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 26, 2026

    Coming Soon! W1A and Twenty Twelve spin-off series Twenty Twenty Six comes to BBC Two and BBC iPlayer Wednesday April 8th with Hugh Bonneville and Hugh Skinner returning as Ian Fletcher and Will Humphries respectively #TwentyTwentySix #bbc #uktv

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  • Open Comms Radio @opencomms.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2026

    🧯🍄🌌 Here we go again, help these fools realize CIG is not directly listening to their thoughts. Season 2 starts now. TWENTY TWENTY SIX! #starcitizen youtu.be/MjrxkHjq2xE?...

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  • The EKosystem - Erin Kellyman fan community @theekosystem.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 27, 2025

    Filming has wrapped on Twenty Twenty Six! Erin plays Madison Flynn in this six episode series. Scheduled to be released in 2026. #erinkellyman

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  • Michael Markowitz @markowitz.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2025

    “Twenty Twelve” and “W1A” are gems, comedy classics. I’m so happy there’ll be a sequel. ‘Twenty Twenty Six’: BBC Satire Series Officially Heading Stateside With Hugh Bonneville Reprising Role And Stephen Kunken, Paulo Costanzo & Chelsey Crisp Joining Cast deadline.com/2025/06/bbc-...

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  • mrschristine @mrschristine.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 19, 2025

    Well this is going to be epic. W1A's Ian Fletcher to return in World Cup series Twenty Twenty Six www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8400...

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