cheers, the new facet was nice but it felt… forced. or something.
― fucking pop records (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 11:53 (seven years ago) link
shame about nomad btw, i'll listen to it regardless obv (the i, partridge audiobook is staggeringly good)
― fucking pop records (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 11:54 (seven years ago) link
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!
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 12:02 (seven years ago) link
spain!
― fucking pop records (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 12:12 (seven years ago) link
I'd do an alan poll (including anglian lives, open books &c.) but i don't know whether people care enough
― fucking pop records (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 12:15 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 12:17 (seven years ago) link
Let battle commence (it's not literally a battle, it's a poll): it's the Alan Partridge poll
― fucking pop records (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 13:16 (seven years ago) link
oh wow - yeah the trip is amazing, s2 maybe even better than s1
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link
can't wait for the next one
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 13:52 (seven years ago) link
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.
― (±\ PLO;;;;;;; Style (sic), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 01:08 (seven years ago) link
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).
― fucking pop records (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 07:38 (seven years ago) link
The Trip to Spain, I had no idea, that is great news.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 12:41 (seven years ago) link
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.
'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.
― early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 10 June 2017 01:07 (six years ago) link
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.”
“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.”
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 3 August 2017 12:14 (six years ago) link
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
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 12 February 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
arrrhah
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
"might think"
― "oh no my cheds" man had dark to black packet (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
LYNN
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 10:12 (six years ago) link
my assistant! my assistant!
― kinder, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 10:45 (six years ago) link
https://partridge.cloud/grabs/S02E01/gif/3fhpSp05G0uj.gif
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 10:49 (six years ago) link
maybe those people were caught short
― kinder, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 10:50 (six years ago) link
i wonder if she ever got to meet benjamin netanyahu
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 11:04 (six years ago) link
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
― scotti pruitti (wins), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 11:08 (six years ago) link
perhaps the “Further casting will be announced in due course” is michael
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 11:37 (six years ago) link
Michael is confirmed to have died sorry
― scotti pruitti (wins), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 11:38 (six years ago) link
perhaps lynn will play madge the badge to alan's dame edna?
― too notch (stevie), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 12:27 (six years ago) link
I don't think they'd limit themselves by confining it just to the studio now that they've got a BBC budget
― Number None, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 12:35 (six years ago) link
"bbc budget" possibly not quite as elephantine as you imagine
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
Michael is confirmed to have died sorryas per alan the reliable narrator
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link
xpost
"300k or we take it to Sky"
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t39E5xMD5I
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 February 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
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.
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.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 February 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
You couldn't POLL a cat: it's the 'I'm Alan Partridge' episode poll
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 9 February 2019 06:29 (five years ago) link
I liked that, but the 'live show' format puts me on edge where KMKY didn't.
(The Edge is fine etc)
― kinder, Monday, 25 February 2019 22:34 (five years ago) link
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.
― See me in mi heels an' tinge (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 February 2019 22:38 (five years ago) link
i loved it
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Monday, 25 February 2019 22:39 (five years ago) link
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
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 25 February 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link
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...
― kinder, Monday, 25 February 2019 23:02 (five years ago) link
*, I liked everything else
I liked it on the whole, but feels like something I'll have to get used to - the combination of densely packed comedy with this ultra-bland format which makes me feel like tuning out and ignoring it, feel like it's kind of unexplored territory and will take a few episodes to start not feeling wrong. Ultimately though think putting Alan in such an uncomfortable situation will ultimately be a wise move, the sheer discomfort of everything seems like pretty fertile territory.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 February 2019 23:03 (five years ago) link
He's turned the Richard Madeley up to 11. Is it going to be studio bound the whole time? Hope not
― or something, Monday, 25 February 2019 23:53 (five years ago) link
haven't seen the whole episode yet, but the rote partridgeness of that clip does not bode well.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 00:45 (five years ago) link
this was pish. the acting was awful.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 02:00 (five years ago) link
When did Lynn become an almighty bitch though?! she has had her moments, I guess...
she's doing her job, assisting and supporting Alan. Jennie is undermining him, and Lynn's pointing it out & giving Jennie a little of her own medicine.
(Alan absolutely doesn't deserve either the pointing out nor Lynn's loyalty at all, but she has taken her job seriously for at least 22 years of Partridge continuity!)
On the evidence of the first episode, the Gibbonses should have left Sidekick Simon in Norfolk; it makes no sense that Alan should be given so much airtime for this ridiculous diversion on his initial stand-in night. If his ineffective standing up to Mickey was rewarded in the second week, that would be a chance to bring Simon in (then fuck up & either not be seen again, or start being part of an 'Alan brings success down around him' narrative)
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 07:15 (five years ago) link
This was funny, but would have made more sense if they'd given him the full series to reconnect with Brexit Britain, as was initially suggested, rather than framing it as a temporary stand-in.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 07:40 (five years ago) link
not seen it yet, but hearing a bothersome milksop like Tim Stanley praising it on thought for the day is enough to put me off for another day.
― calzino, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 07:54 (five years ago) link
It felt a bit rushed and forced - like we know Partridge is awkward etc and there wasn't really enough chances for his character to emerge. I'm not sure setting him up directly opposite another character is ever going to work, he just sort of engulfs the co-host who isn't written particularly well even as a foil.
The bits where he sort of had space to be Alan were amusing enough, the grandad monologue and especially his report about washing hands.
Will probably continue watching but it was only okay really. Weirdly the more lo-fi Sky Atlantic stuff prob suits him better, this actually had the sheen of the One Show and the BBC or something and not solely in an ironic way.
― FernandoHierro, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 07:59 (five years ago) link
This was funny, but would have made more sense if they'd given him the full series to reconnect with Brexit Britain, as was initially suggested
there's still room for this to become a major thread of the series! but in this interview the Gibbons say they're about to make another Partridge series which takes a documentary look at British history, so maybe more of those ideas have been held over.
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 08:25 (five years ago) link
Seems like the review is glowing mostly because he's back, not for the actual 30mins we saw last night. It felt flat.
Best laugh I had was hearing a man shout 'Partridge you wanker' in the background when he was walking down the street for his hi-jean report.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 08:28 (five years ago) link
Chinaman square?
― kinder, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 08:39 (five years ago) link