Ian Fletcher, the BBC's head of values, is back!

New video message from the star of W1A

comedy Ian Fletcher, the BBC's head of values as seen on the documentary W1A, has recorded a new speech from his home executive office.

His comments come by way of introduction to a new recording of the series' theme tune – Las Vegas by Laurie Johnson and previously used on Animal Magic – as recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra in lockdown.

He says the recording is a reminder that 'no matter how bleak things may seem just at the moment, there is still a life beyond podcasts.'

Fletcher bears an uncanny resemblance to Downton Abbey actor Hugh Bonneville sporting an unfamiliar short haircut, and the script could almost have been penned by comedy writer John Morton.

Last week Bonneville and some of the rest of the W1A became involved in a Twitter thread that kept the show's spirit alive after genuine BBC journalist Tom Hourigan shared a peculiar question he'd been asked in a staff survey:

BBC staff have just been sent a wellbeing survey and I'm fairly confident this wasn't meant to be one of the questions pic.twitter.com/VMphViATPv

— Tom Hourigan (@TomHourigan) May 6, 2020

Yes no sure, thanks for flagging this, Tom. It wasn’t a fault in Syncopatiquiz it was just a glitch in human error brought on by intern. He’d been self-isolating in Studio 6B, that is until Jenni Murray heard snoring; he’s very tired. #W1A @jason__watkins @drsarahparish

— Hugh Bonneville (@hughbon) May 7, 2020

Yes

— Sarah Parish (@DrSarahParish) May 9, 2020

Right. I mean I don't know if you'd like to —

— Hugh Bonneville (@hughbon) May 9, 2020

No

— Sarah Parish (@DrSarahParish) May 9, 2020

Yes no truly brilliant Tom. Heroic exposé. ‘Blah error’did indeed lead from said intern.He was using Tony’s @Deliveroo account to get stuff in from next door #CafeNero -T doesn’t give a ‘blah’ as he’s leaving as DG. Behaving really badly actually. #WheelsComeOff RU running 4 DG?

— Jason Watkins (@Jason__Watkins) May 9, 2020

Simon, FT me. The fact is We Need To Talk About the next DG

— Sarah Parish (@DrSarahParish) May 9, 2020

We tried to FT once. And it was every unsatisfying you us both. You made that VERY clear at the time I remember. I can zoom you later. How do you feel about hopping back from. @Netflix to General us all..

— Jason Watkins (@Jason__Watkins) May 9, 2020

Yes, no, the what?

— Sarah Parish (@DrSarahParish) May 9, 2020

Frankly now that the BBC is finally upfront and centre in the public you know uppermost, who needs Netflix Tigernuts when we have Sir David on a loop? (Incidentally, I hear he turned down DG while self-isolating in Maui). @DrSarahParish @Jason__Watkins #W1A

— Hugh Bonneville (@hughbon) May 9, 2020

Actually come to think of it animals are the only thing we can safely film atm. How quickly can we get him back from Hawaii and in front of that lizard in Tony’s office? #TheOneShow’s really up against it. #W1A @Jason__Watkins @DrSarahParish

— Hugh Bonneville (@hughbon) May 9, 2020