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HERE S a subject for investigation: mockumentaries – when did they start, and will the invasion end with the ubiquitous format taking over TV? I would trace the beginnings to the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap. In Rob Reiner’s classic comedy, written by Christopher Guest, Reiner (also starring), Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, the cameras followed a heavy metal band on tour, their triumphs and tragedies but mostly their regular bouts of humiliation, including getting lost en route to the stage. It was such a hit that imitators were sure to follow, and it turned out that television, with its love of cheap to make fly-on-the-wall shows, had a lot to mock, from programmes about office life (The Office) and the BBC (W1A), to urban pirate radio DJs (People Just Do Nothing). Viewers had seen enough traditional takes on institutions to slip easily into the joke, and the style worked across the globe.

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