W1A (2014)

The BBC satirising the BBC, and doing it with alarming accuracy about management rather than programmes. Hugh Bonneville's Ian Fletcher arrives as Head of Values, surrounded by brand consultants, meetings about meetings and a vocabulary that means nothing while sounding like strategy. A spin-off from Twenty Twelve, it ran for three series on BBC Two from 2014. It is gentler than most of this list, and the target is the institution's habit of talking to itself instead of its audience. Anyone who has sat through a rebrand will recognise every scene.