It's a year since Tim Davie formally started work as BBC DG. The Mash Report had ended its fourth series in May 2020. It had enemies: Andrew Neil, at the time a BBC Politics presenter, said in 2018, it was "self-satisfied, self-adulatory, unchallenged left-wing propaganda. It's hardly balance. Could never happen on a politics show. Except this has become a politics show."
It took until March this year for the BBC to formally announce it had been cancelled "to make room for new comedy shows".
In July, UKTV, wholly owned by BBC Studios, announced a new eight part series, Late Night Mash, had been commissioned, for its comedy channel, Dave. BBC Studios has been run by an interim CEO since Tim Davie's promotion.
One gag line from last night's opening show: “We will work with you as long as you improve your attitude to women, democracy and the rule of law. The Taliban tell Boris Johnson"
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