Alan Partridge comes to BBC America

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).

The Trip to Spain, I had no idea, that is great news.

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2017/06/09/36768/aha!_partridge_returns_to_the_bbc

Steve Coogan made the surprise announcement on tonight's episode of The One Show.

'Alan will be be back on the BBC early next year … there'll be a lot of Alan on telly early next year' he revealed.

http://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/alan-partridge-at-the-bbc-getting-in-touch-with-all-the-little-englanders-1-5132908

“For example, I’m doing an Alan Partridge series, that I have to write at the end of this year, to go out on BBC2 next spring. That’s going to be tough. It’s always difficult to make good comedy. You always have to work really hard at it. The standard of the comedy on Partridge is so high, that you have to match it, or people go, ‘Oh, they’ve lost it’.

Which reminds me – what’s Alan up to now?

“Well, because he has got a show on the BBC, we have a problem, because we have to explain why he’s a failure, but that he has a show. The logic of what he is doing has to make sense.

“It’s conceivable, because in this age of Brexit, they (the BBC) might think they need to get in touch with the ‘Little Englanders’ they ignore.”

and here it is

- 'this time with alan partridge'
- alan will be co-hosting (again)
- sidekick simon returns
- six half-hour episodes later this year

arrrhah

"might think"

LYNN

my assistant! my assistant!

https://partridge.cloud/grabs/S02E01/gif/3fhpSp05G0uj.gif

maybe those people were caught short

i wonder if she ever got to meet benjamin netanyahu

Bit confused about the format of this now, previously news led me to believe it'd be a spoof magazine show a la kmkywap, but if lynn's in it that suggests there'll be at least part of it that's a fly-on-the-wall thing

perhaps the “Further casting will be announced in due course” is michael

Michael is confirmed to have died sorry

Bit confused about the format of this now, previously news led me to believe it'd be a spoof magazine show a la kmkywap, but if lynn's in it that suggests there'll be at least part of it that's a fly-on-the-wall thing

perhaps lynn will play madge the badge to alan's dame edna?

I don't think they'd limit themselves by confining it just to the studio now that they've got a BBC budget

"bbc budget" possibly not quite as elephantine as you imagine

Michael is confirmed to have died sorry

as per alan the reliable narrator

xpost

"300k or we take it to Sky"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t39E5xMD5I

I'm Alan Partridge and I am delighted, or at least content, to invite you to a special preview screening of my (and BBC One's) upcoming magazine show 'This Time with Alan Partridge' (my emphasis).

The show marks my return to BBC Television after two decades in various doldrums (depression, radio, Sky Atlantic) and you've been carefully selected because you're either a journalist with a pleasant disposition or a friend or representative of an institution with whom I currently hold no specific grudge.

Limited refreshments will be provided. I think it works out at about two drinks a head, although around a third of you won't drink so some of you can have four. Food-wise, expect light snacks; those of you with a large appetite or poor impulse control should probably eat before you get there.

Toilet facilities are also on hand, catering for the full spectrum of gender and disability - but again, if you have more bespoke needs, try to go before you arrive.

Dress code: Just show a bit of respect really.

Have some manners and RSVP.

You couldn't POLL a cat: it's the 'I'm Alan Partridge' episode poll

I liked that, but the 'live show' format puts me on edge where KMKY didn't.

(The Edge is fine etc)

yeah it was too much or something. i dunno, i laughed a couple of times, i don't think i'm interested in whatever this sort of thing is any more.

i loved it

That's about what I thought, yeah. The presentation bits and Simon w/ the digi-wall just weren't very funny imo. It was about the stuff in between for me, that was nice.

"A b.... Bolshevist with a bee in his bonnet" is a keeper. Anyone remember the first 'b' word in there?

xp to kinder

fluck/clunt left me cold i looked pretty much everything else. When did Lynn become an almighty bitch though?! she has had her moments, I guess...

*, I liked everything else