Alan Partridge comes to BBC America

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.

btw coogan hinted recently that they're working on something new.

"We're doing some more Alan at the end of this year. He'll return to the small screen in a way that we're trying to devise at the moment," Coogan said. "We're not quite sure what that is, but we've got a few ideas that I'm going to keep up my sleeve at the moment. But there'll be more Alan, there'll be a regular appearance of Alan and some of the usual suspects."

There's already been 13 hours of new Partridge since Welcome To The Places Of My Life!

(none of it as good as Welcome To The Places Of My Life tbf, but all of it at bare minimum 23% as good)

mid morning matters never really gripped me (brilliant as it is), and alpha papa is its own beast. haven't got hold of nomad yet.

Nomad's good but the audiobook is not the masterpiece that I, Alan was - from listening, you get the feeling that whereas the first book was jammed by all four, put on the page by the Gibbonses, then revised with Ianucci and Coogan, this one was written entirely by the Gibbonses after a couple of chats with Coogan. Not that that makes the text bad! But Coogan often sounds like he's reading it for the first time, rather than delivering an incredible performance of material he knew well and was deeply involved with.

Hunt down Scissored Isle, the sequel in format to Places Of My Life. It's patchier, but has some splendid highs, and pulls off one of the most incredible revelations of a new facet of Alan's character.

cheers, the new facet was nice but it felt… forced. or something.

shame about nomad btw, i'll listen to it regardless obv (the i, partridge audiobook is staggeringly good)

yeah it is amazing! nomad is still funny but i didn't even get to the end. i, partridge i listened to like three times in a row.

coogan-related - the trip season 3 starts in a couple of weeks. can't wait!

spain!

I'd do an alan poll (including anglian lives, open books &c.) but i don't know whether people care enough

yeah i'm so excited for it being spain. i think s2 was one of my favourite tv shows ever. i love everything about it, the comedy, the whimsical or sentimental feel, the cinematography, and also seeing all these restaurants. i've travelled in spain p extensively so can't wait to see where they go.

Let battle commence (it's not literally a battle, it's a poll): it's the Alan Partridge poll

oh wow - yeah the trip is amazing, s2 maybe even better than s1

can't wait for the next one

cheers, the new facet was nice but it felt… forced. or something.

I was being spoiler-free in case you hadn’t seen, but the scene I was thinking of was when he does a shift on the supermarket checkout. A man so desperately defined by class-consciousness, aspiration and wilful delusion over status – but whose core desire for work is to talk to regular people – accidentally, and unwittingly, takes enormous satisfaction and pleasure in doing a “menial” role and chatting to people. He comes alive and takes properly-earned pride in doing a good job! He connects with his audience! It’s an amazing way of showing something that’s inherent in Alan, but has never been done before.

forgot all about that scene tbh (by 'facet' i thought you meant the wacky shit near the end). i see your point, it's certainly something new for alan to be connecting with a range of people rather than the three he usually bullies about the place. he did a similar thing in welcome, but back then he was hellbent on showing off his prowess at a market stall.

probably time i watched scissored isle again. there's probably heaps i didn't pick up on the first time round (as is usually the case).