Olivia Colman and Hugh Bonneville's popular series branded "comedy gold" is coming to Netflix

While we'll have to wait until 2028 for the next Olympic Games, Netflix has conveniently filled the gap with Twenty Twelve.

The series, currently highlighted on the streaming service's "worth the wait" section, is set to land on 17 November.

Created by People Like Us' John Morton, The Office-style mockumentary originally aired in March 2011, to coincide with the 500-day countdown to the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics in London.

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Hugh Bonneville stars as Ian Fletcher, the idealistic head of the fictional Olympic Deliverance Commission (ODC).

He's repeatedly undermined by his chatty public relations specialist, Jessica Hynes's Siobhan Sharpe, who insists Joanna Lumley should be the one to carry the Olympic torch.

Meanwhile, his head of sustainability, Amelia Bullmore's Kay Hope, is clueless when it comes to repurposing all the arenas and accommodation centres built for the Games – she tries to fob off a skateboard park to a youth group that already has a skateboard park.

The series also stars Olivia Colman as Ian's personal assistant, Vincent Franklin as head of contracts, and Karl Theobald as head of infrastructure. David Tennant provides the mockumentary's narration.

Hynes and Bonneville's characters returned for the sequel series W1A, which satirised BBC management, while Bonneville alone returned for this year's Twenty Twenty Six, which focused on the lead-up to the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Salon's Roger Catlin has called the series "the funniest British satire since The Office" and "comedy gold [that] will likely find a long afterlife".

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The Independent's Simmy Richman argued it was "strangely underloved". He added: "If The Thick of It is a savage Yes, Prime Minister for the age of spin, Twenty Twelve is Dad's Army scripted by [Catch 22 author] Joseph Heller."

Colman won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for Twenty Twelve, and it's a phenomenal opportunity to see some of her earlier, small-screen work.

One Academy Award win and two nominations later, Colman is back in cinemas with her unconventional romance Wicker, in which she stars opposite Alexander Skarsgård as a lonely fisherwoman who commissions for herself a wicker-made husband.

Digital Spy named the film "one of the weirdest movies" she's been in and a "must-see".

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