Alan Partridge comes to BBC America

holy shit the movie actually got made and there's a trailer out

http://www.avclub.com/articles/alan-partridge-alpha-papa,98989/

this is going to be excellent

It was good! Weird seeing Alan on the big screen with people laughing along. Also not looking much like 'Alan' as we have recently seen him - he was a bit too young/hip/confident and perhaps a bit of the subtlety that really cements AP as THAT character was lost. But I don't really mind that, it worked. I've been worried about a flash movie but it was basically like a feature-length ep, most of the mad/ridiculous stuff just kind of hung back a lot and let Alan be Alan.
I am too much of an AP stan to be able to tell how this will be received as a 'movie' by casual viewers.

Recently re-watched all of Mid Morning Matters and it's really a brilliant way to take Partridge forward. Kind of odd having that, small-scale, alongside a movie, I suppose, but it did work.

(not enough Michael, though)

At the premiere they put a shop-soiled Chocolate Orange and a Marillion greatest-hits CD on every one of the seats.

has anyone heard anything about any US screenings?

no release date yet for the u.s.

yeah i know, just meant press or whatever screenings eg in new york. i know there were a bunch of pre-release screenings of in the loop at the ifc center, although in that case they'd bought the film for us release so different i guess.

kinder, I also thought that alan looked too young in the trailer for this (haven't seen it yet). Have absolutely loved everything they've done with the character recently though: MMM, the 2 sky specials and the audiobook (which is probably my favourite piece of partridgiana now). Even more trepidatious after reading your impressions, but basically I will enjoy this whatever.

xp ah, sorry. yeah, i just want to see it, but i'm worried that it'll have to wait til streaming or whatever.

it only has a UK/ROI release afaia

oh wait you already said that

NZ too, so i guess we got skipped.

he was a bit too young/hip/confident and perhaps a bit of the subtlety that really cements AP as THAT character was lost.

I think it was v much in line with the wider development of alan

I dunno, I feel like he's kind of already been there and 'matured' into a slightly different type of character with a lot of 'older' hallmarks. Not particularly complaining, it was just a bit odd.

I liked it- not a disappointment at all! The best bits were all Michael related though, felt like he was underused.

You'd think with the care and attention given to the character and his personality that there would be a little more consistency with the character's appearance over time.

hello your post makes no sense

hellloooo please explain

you want him to wear the same outfit all the time or make the same facial expression nonstop?

Why would I want him to wear the same stuff when he didn't do that in the series, even?

What I am saying is that I don't expect to look much older than he was in Series 1/2 but I don't think he should actively appear younger than he was in Series 1 for example

http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/quiz-which-pharrell-is-older.html

xp discussed here http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2013/aug/07/steve-coogan-alan-partridge-video-interview?INTCMP=SRCH

Loved this. Although a sparks song over the credits means I am contractually obliged to like a movie (cf boarding gate)

screening at NYFF in october

Magnolia has acquired it. Looking like early 2014.

rad

Finally getting around to the Mid Morning Matters stuff and after episode 7 I now have "It's me on me on Alan on Alan..." going through my head.

Didn't realise until I watched most of Mid Morning Matters back-to-back quite how tight the writing was.

In one episode Alan gets wound up by Sidekick Simon and tells him furiously "You're this to me", holding his thumb and forefinger slightly apart. Quite a bit later in the series he tells a grim little anecdote about his father saying precisely that to him when he was a kid. So good.

Yeah MMM is absolutely terrific, definitely one of the gems of the Partridge canon.

I'd probably rank it second only to the first series of IAP.

I could listen to Alan doing song links forever. Could have done with some more in the film actually

there's an app you can get that will make alan chat between the mp3s on your iTunes.

some lost Partridge footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWshspo_WNE&feature=youtu.be

looks like the movie was just added to netflix streaming.

"Placards with no official font..."

The sequence in the new MMM with Julian Barratt as a folk singer is hysterical.

Yeah, it was great. I'm not all the way through but the second series has seemed pretty great.

great great great

Just watched the last episode - indeed, great.

Did my annual switch-on to Now TV to watch this and GoT. Watched 2 eps, for some reason I lost my shit at "what part of 'multi-pack, not to be sold separately' don't they understand?" and was hyperventilating for about 15 minutes straight.
God it's good to have this back

Is it still on NowTV? Watched one last week and saw the series was about to leave and was bummed I'd only seen two so far.

All of them were on last night. Do I need to binge-watch them then?

finally saw a couple eps of I'm Alan Partidge, funny shit

(eg, the blackout tryst with the receptionist and choc mousse)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ5CdJwKNI8

the doormat PA is a treat

i liked SCISSORED ISLE a lot. it's coming to a streaming service here called seeso next month

(also uh i googled 'sesso' by mistake and whoops)

Nomad audiobook as good as the superb autobiography from a few years back.

"You have big sheds, but nobody's allowed in. And in these sheds you have 20ft high chickens, and these chickens are scared because the don't know why they're so big, and they're going, "Oh why am I so massive?" and they're looking down at all the little chickens and they think they're in an aeroplane because all the other chickens are so small. Do you deny that? No, I think his silence speaks volumes."

by chance i'm listening to this podcast right now. probably one for people with nothing better to do if i'm honest, but a lot of fun regardless.

alan partridge stuff is the only stuff i can watch more than once a year without getting bored. clearly it's having an effect on me as yesterday i had 'full sex with a woman' bouncing around my head for no reason.