alan partridge
Filming has begun on This Time With Alan Partridge, the new Partridge project coming to BBC One later this year, a quarter of a century after his BBC debut.
The show will see Alan (Steve Coogan) handed a career lifeline - the chance to stand in (temporarily) as co-host on This Time, an evening weekday magazine show.
Steve Coogan's monstrous comic icon is all set to return to the BBC next year with a new Brexit-related show, so as a nice curtain-raiser this documentary about Alan Partridge works as both a laugh-packed clips show and a history of the spoof celebrity who put Norwich on the map.
It has been a quarter of a century since a little-known sports reporter was given his own radio chat show by the BBC. Two radio series, five TV series, four specials, two books and one movie later, Alan Partridge has an unrivalled place in the comedy pantheon.
BBC Two will broadcast a 25th anniversary special before the end of the year - a one hour show marking 25 years since his debut on BBC Radio back in 1992.
A BBC One series will then air next year.
Both are to be produced by Baby Cow Productions.
Alan Partridge is set to return to the BBC.
Fawlty Towers has been voted the British comedy industry's favourite sitcom.
In a new survey over 100 comedians, including David Baddiel, Jenny Eclair, Reece Shearsmith, Zoe Lyons, James Acaster and Alexei Sayle, were asked to nominate their favourite actors, sitcoms, characters, scenes and one-liners.
The publication date has been confirmed for the new book by Alan Partridge.
Nomad, which finds Partridge travelling around the UK on a voyage of discovery, is published by Trapeze on October 20.
Diarising his ramble in the form of a ‘journey journal’, Alan details the people and places he encounters, ruminates on matters large and small and, on a final leg fraught with danger, becomes – not a man (because he was one to start off with) – but a better, more inspiring example of a man.
It’s always good to see Steve Coogan slip back into the Alan Partridge saddle. The character is so well-formed he works in anything from long-form movies to quick-hit online shorts. This time round we saw him in something between the two, fronting a documentary in which he headed north seeking career redemption having called a teenage guest on his radio show a chav and a sheep shagger.
Alan Partridge is to make his debut on vinyl. He will be immortalised on a picture disc, released by Demon Records especially for Record Store Day 2016.
I was a little disappointed at first when I watched Alan Partridge's new series on Sky Atlantic, but for a while I couldn't work out why. Everything seemed to be in place, from the foot-in-mouth soundbites to Sidekick Simon to the terrible midde-aged clothes to the feeble attempts to appear down with the North Norfolk Digital kids.
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