Alan Partridge comes to BBC America

I'd never seen any of these before, it was funny even though Partridge himself seems weirder and less like a real person than before.

The funniest thing to me was trying to get out of the door of the greenhouse. I could watch stuff like that all day.

Trying to explain the collapse of ITV franchises (and caring about it) is my twitter feed in a nutshell. I think probably monthly about Lennie Bennett introducing us to "Television Simply Wonderful", even though I was in a completely different region at the time.

this was probably my favourite episode so far, favourite bit was probably the explanation of why he went back and forth to the tailor so many times

Yeah that was great, especially the throwaway acknowledgement it was because he'd had hair surgery.

does anyone remember on the radio series of KMKY where Alan reveals under hypnosis that some kids at school called him "Smelly Alan Fartridge" when he was 9, then when he is told about it frantically tried to persuade the guests that he wasn't smelly when he was 9, took a shower every day, etc.?

yeah for some reason thinking about that tonight

Yes.

Took me half a day but I get you now.

The final episode of the new series was comfortably the funniest of the run.

The final episode of the new series was comfortably the funniest of the run.

Download from mega or google drive, have someone hand or post you a memory stick, VPN to UK

ilplex

It's on youtube

I bought the UK DVD it came in the mail today I started watching. The return of cheeky monkey sure went to strange places!

Anyway I’m two episodes in and haven’t seen Natasha Demitriou yet :(

you have :)

Wait, she’s definitely not the flirty makeup lady? I only know her as a vampire so maybe she’s been in plain sight.

Ahem

new partridge dropped

#AccidentalPartridge pic.twitter.com/dZVs4i3jYm

— Accidental Partridge (@AccidentalP) October 7, 2021

"personal slaughter" is classic!

accidental partridge things are not usually this good!

Yeah I laughed out loud.

Christ I needed him to make a fool of himself in exactly that way

For those outside the UK, Jeremy Vine is a perfect example of the sort of posh dimwit that is the bedrock of the British broadcast media, and they're all related to each other or married to each other or whatever.

Ahhh thanks

> and they're all related to each other or married to each other or whatever.

so dorries was right!

Stopped clock.

did we have a thread for real tv things that sound like things alan pitched at that meeting? Monkey Tennis, Youth Hostelling With Chris Eubank, etc

anyway, tonight, ch4:

"Extraordinary Extensions
Musician-turned-property guru Tinie Tempah follows British homeowners as they realise their dreams by embarking on ambitious home extensions."

There's so many of them, Channel 5 consists of little else.

Accidental Partridge

https://i1.wp.com/www.caroldrinkwater.com/wp-content/uploads/TX-CARD_A-YEAR-IN-PROVENCE-WITH-CAROL-DRINKWATER-3.jpeg?resize=580%2C386

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Heads up, there is a new series of the podcast 'From the Oasthouse' on Audible. I'm giving s1 a listen first but looking forward to it.

Awesome thanks!

S2 excellent so far (I'm halfway through)

I listened to this live.

#AccidentalPartridge pic.twitter.com/9AxUNcMU16

— Accidental Partridge (@AccidentalP) December 6, 2022

Love it

“Imagine you showed an iPhone to king Henry VII / it would blow his mind “

recently caught up on s2 of this time. so good

He's back!
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/feb/05/steve-coogan-return-alan-partridge-bbc-mockumentary

will watch but damn between books and podcasts and this, there 's a lot of Coogan content out there
wouldn't mind if he dropped all the partridge stuff and just did more series of the Trip

This was first announced in 2019, you’ve had time to catch up (on the 900 hours of other Gibbons material they’ve pumped out since)

The Gibbons material has all been strong imo, though I've not read the books since the autobiog.

the bit in Scissored Isle with the bubble wrap is still one of the funniest things i've seen

Other than the two series of “This Time”, the Oasthouse podcast, and the Amazon special, has there been other AP/Coogan content in the last couple years?

Two books, which are also available in (necessary) audio book format.

to be honest I have loved all of this stuff.

The only one I haven’t bothered watching is strategem, has coogan figured out how to do live comedy yet? Previous partridge et al live shows were dire

Yeah I saw strategem live and it was pretty terrible.

The little reunion at the end of the 3rd series of From the Oasthouse though was absolutely perfect and I loved it.

Oh didn’t even know there was a third series of Oasthouse and a new book.

yeah there's a lot to keep up with, I think the Beacon book passed me by completely (audio-only stuff takes longer for me to find time to listen to, and it's usually worth listening to the books).