Alan Partridge comes to BBC America

anyone read/listened to the book?

yes listened it's great

listened to the first hour or so and yeah, really really good. I can't imagine reading the text alone would be anywhere near as good

halfway through and starting to think the audiobook format suits him more than anything. it is hilarious, i keep bursting out laughing in public when listening to this.

a friend of mine went to optimo espookio last night in full alan partridge peephole pringle and rubber thong get up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOQIMOcEVc4

oh man your friend ftw

i wish i could post his facebook pic but it wouldn't be right. it's pretty disturbing.

The description of his fellow DJs at the music shop was something else.

I've listened to about half of the book (driving to the Grand Canyon from Vegas and back, was a good idea to bring it) and it's really great. It's like 7 hours of proper new material, really.
Best thing ever: after listening to a few hours of this, I open 'Infinite Jest' and read "my chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it". XD

7 hours of proper new material that recounts the whole of kmkywap everything before and since with added perspective honesty delusion grandiloquence and needless-to-say-I-had-the-last-laugh-esque revisionism

It's incredibly impressive really

what

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNi0DljI-t0

does the book credit Ianucci, the new writers and Coogan equally (or at all, or whatever)? am itching for the audiobook to show up on CD-Wow so I can price compare with Book Depository

audiobook credits "by alan partridge with mark gibbons, neil gibbons, armando ianucci and steve coogan"

but he says the last names very fast.

cool, so must be mainly the new dudes - probably a v helpful factor in the apparent frequent focus on recasting old events in nu-Partridge's rosy spectacles

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Ha. Was trying to find this on Audible, turns out they actually list it by author with "Alan Partridge"

iTunes doesn't have this yet, dammit. Seriously considerably signing up for Audible with one of them promo deals so's I can load the audiobook onto my phone.

They had a free trial offer thing going in the UK with Audible (UK). It's impossible to get in the US unless you order it on CD for like $25 + shipping :(
It's actually worth paying full price for but not when you want it IMMEDIATELY

If you do the promo deal thru podcasts, they usually have a free book offer. I only need a copy that I can load onto my phone, anyway.

fuck all geoblocking

new show http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/video/2012/jun/01/alan-partridge-norfolk-sky?newsfeed=true

i am not totally following this but is it not a little weird that this show's on sky, what with coogan's apoplexy re: the murdoch empire

incredibly weird, yep

the little-seen UK cable TV charity adverts for the Teenage Cancer Trust (from 2000?) are some of my fave ever Alan bits. not as laugh out loud hilarious as your Day Today stuff and whatnot but fantastic all the same. they were writen by Baynham and Coogan and all 5 of them are on You Tube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkHY1bVciIE

also harpercollins published that recent partridge autobiography, right around the time coogan was chucking it on newsnight xp

so it obviously isn't incredibly weird for steve coogan.

haha that clip was great

anyone know if they're releasing Mid-Morning Matters on dvd or anything?
awesome clip, cheers!

Some talk of MMM being expanded into a proper TV series.

back of the net, etc

"I want a hundred k or I'm taking it to Sky"

First episode was distinctly medium, I thought. Mid Morning Matters was way better.

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