East Village spent last summer doubling as Miami for a BBC comedy

East Village has a habit of being mistaken for somewhere else. Built as the Olympic Village for London 2012, it spent years being described as "the next big thing" by people who didn't live here. Last summer, a BBC film crew took that logic one step further and dressed it up as Florida.

Twenty Twenty Six - the new mockumentary from the team behind Twenty Twelve and W1A - airs on BBC Two and iPlayer from 8 April. It follows Ian Fletcher (Hugh Bonneville), the hapless bureaucrat last seen steering London's Olympic delivery, now posted to Miami as Director of Integrity for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The show is set in Florida. It was not filmed there.

Insignia Point on East Park Walk was used as an exterior location in August 2025. Production crew attached "MIA" football banners to the lamp posts and applied temporary studio branding to the windows. Other lamp posts along the street got "Miami Beach Botanical Garden" flags. The GetLiving "East Village London E20" sign stayed up throughout.

The production has confirmed the series was filmed in London during last summer's heatwave, with Miami drone footage added in post. The sunny weather apparently did the rest.

It is, objectively, very on-brand. The neighbourhood exists because London won the right to host a global sporting event. Now it's been drafted in as the host city for another one. The Olympic Village, playing Miami. Ian Fletcher would understand.

Twenty Twenty Six starts Wednesday 8 April at 10pm on BBC Two. The full series drops on iPlayer at 6am the same day.