The Peter Principle (TV Series)
The Peter Principle is a BBC television show about the Aldbridge Branch of the fictional County & Provincial Bank. It originally aired in the late 1990s and is now a part of the PBS program lineup at some PBS stations, which call it The Boss. The program takes its name from the Peter Principle, that In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Read more about The Peter Principle (TV Series): Cast, Characters in Depth, Episode Guide, Location, The Pilot (1995), Production Information
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“Ellie: By the way, what’s your name?
Peter: What’s that?
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Ellie: You’ve got a name, haven’t you?
Peter: Yeah, I got a name. Peter Warne.
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—Robert Riskin (1897–1955)
“All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)