W1A (TV series) on 23 April 2015 with a one-hour special. In August 2016, "Radio Times" announced that "W1A" had been recommissioned for a third and final series, which began airing on 18 September 2017. The series is named after the postal code of the BBC's headquarters, Broadcasting House, which is W1A 1AA. The series revolves around Ian Fletcher (Hugh Bonneville), formerly the Head of the Olympic Deliverance Commission, who has been chosen to be the Head of Values at the BBC. His task is to clarify, define, or re-define the core purpose of the BBC across all its functions and to position
Hugh Bonneville Cambridge, and studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He left Cambridge with a 2:2 in theology and has since said that he tended to do more acting than academic work. Bonneville is also an alumnus of the National Youth Theatre. Bonneville's first professional stage appearance was at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. In 1987, he joined the National Theatre where he appeared in several plays, then the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1991, where he played Laertes to Kenneth Branagh's "Hamlet" (1992–1993). He played Valentine in "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Bergetto in "'Tis