He generally does zero of the sitting-at-a-keyboard writing, but sometimes does lots of initial riffing with the Gibbons. The brothers then divide up ideas and write separately, and then they and Coogan and whoever else is on a given project* will revise. No idea if that's the same here, but it was made before the world shut down, and likely written while he was busy promoting Greed and the fourth series of The Trip...
*I think everything since Alpha Papa has just been the three of them, though sometimes Armando will give feedback.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
I was hoping you’d come thru sic. Thanks :)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
:D
Probably less relevant to the process on this project, but also notable, from an interview with Neil about This Time (nb they started directing as well with MMM season 2):
Once the script is finished it continues to evolve until the cameras roll. 'On set we'll hammer it again and again, before and between takes, partly to gives us more options in the edit,' says Neil. 'And then there's the edit itself which is another phase altogether. The assembly that's put together at the beginning of the edit is miles from the finished article. We carry on writing until we deliver the final show, basically.'
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
i’m alan partridge, this is my podcast... ‘MTHEOASTHOUSEhahaha i know except except - he says “i’m Ala’ Patridge” WHY DOES HE DO THAT
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
I think you'll find that he very helpfully went into extreme detail about why he has had to adopt some counterintuitive pronunciations in order to rise above anti-Norwichian prejudice on the media stage. So bloody go and stuff your leading questions!
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
I'd like to apologise for that earlier outburst, I acknowledge you were posting in earnest
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
no yes. well.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
🤠
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 23:38 (three years ago) link
The theme tune is always in my head, but my brain wants to finish it with "with your fist holding tight... to the string of a kite" then I've got "Let's go fly a kite" as an earworm.
― kinder, Thursday, 8 October 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
Initialism vs acronym distinction takedown was great in ep 3― calstars, Tuesday, March 19, 2019 4:09 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― calstars, Tuesday, March 19, 2019 4:09 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
Just seen this from the This Time thread!
― kinder, Thursday, 8 October 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
Not 'thread'... the bit of this thread
― kinder, Thursday, 8 October 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
this is v goodhttps://www.vice.com/en/article/4ayjpj/oral-history-of-alan-partridge
― comorbidities in the BK lounge (stevie), Friday, 9 October 2020 13:26 (three years ago) link
Lee & Herring shafted again...
― Number None, Friday, 9 October 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
Thanks for that! the laughter track thing is so weird, I must've watched IAP s1 hundreds of times but it still surprises me to see it.
― kinder, Friday, 9 October 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link
Podcast is very good but it will never beat the real thing:
#AccidentalPartridge pic.twitter.com/jXHTD8adEo— Accidental Partridge (@AccidentalP) October 10, 2020
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 12 October 2020 08:44 (three years ago) link
fucking hell
― Number None, Monday, 12 October 2020 08:57 (three years ago) link
that is next-level.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 October 2020 08:58 (three years ago) link
and now here’s bernard matthews to talk about national vegan day
― THE LEFT (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
On the BBC 4 Podcast Hour, Coogan says that they're writing a second series of This Time at the moment, and it will be set after the pandemic. (They recorded a couple of late snippets of Oasthouse in lockdown, but thought it would unduly colour the entire project if they mentioned it. On the whole he prefers to avoid references to specific politicians or sports announcers in Partridge, as they're more transient than other elements of culture that concern the character.)
― Covidiots from UHF (sic), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 02:50 (three years ago) link
They recorded a couple of late snippets of Oasthouse in lockdown, but thought it would unduly colour the entire project if they mentioned it.
I may be misremembering, but I thought there were a couple of references to lockdown in the early episodes?
― Walter Draggedman (stevie), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 07:00 (three years ago) link
He may have said "to focus on it" or s/t - was mainly correcting the interviewer's impression that the whole project had been done under lockdown to entertain people in that situation.
― Covidiots from UHF (sic), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 08:07 (three years ago) link
Ah, right. I noticed the other day that the later episodes are clearly written in a non-Covid environment. Still not finished them yet, and will be sad when I do!
― Walter Draggedman (stevie), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 08:59 (three years ago) link
― Number None, Monday, 12 October 2020 bookmarkflaglink
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 October 2020 bookmarkflaglink
Isn't it a practice for a white person to talk first on these experiences rather than the person who has suffered the consequences of racists attitudes having to do the heavy lifting? Obv what happened next was edited for comedy but I'd be surprised if that was the only voice heard from in the discussion.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 09:24 (three years ago) link
A rare piece of Partridgeana: the in-universe 1993 "fly on the wall" doco made during the production of Knowing Me Knowing You episode 4. Broadcast halfway between the KMKY radio series and The Day Today's TV series, includes the only actual appearance of Carol, and Partridge's only acknowledgment of his hair*. Plus Iannucci on-mic as the producer, and the intertextuality / strand-to-strand editing might hint that he wrote it with Marber & Coogan?
Up for another 16 days free listening rn: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00800kh
*(imo his hair was already retconned after IAP S2, and I'm adding another retcon between this and IAP to my headcanon)
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 8 January 2021 07:46 (three years ago) link
Not exactly following you but he does discuss his hair in the Oasthouse. There's a whole episode inspired by his hair.
― everything, Friday, 8 January 2021 08:14 (three years ago) link
There's a gag about its apparent fakeness in the doco :)
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 8 January 2021 08:16 (three years ago) link
thanks for the headsup!
― kinder, Friday, 8 January 2021 09:31 (three years ago) link
Thanks too!
― calstars, Friday, 8 January 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link
Irish Alan was superb
I'm finally watching this series and yeah, great bit and great performance by Coogan.
― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 8 February 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
It's back! soon
The new series of #ThisTime with Alan Partridge begins on Friday 30 April at 9.30pm on @BBCOne. pic.twitter.com/k5cyl7hT7Z— BBC Press Office (@bbcpress) April 14, 2021
― kinder, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link
^
― koogs, Friday, 30 April 2021 17:38 (two years ago) link
thank you for reminder!
― One Of The Bad Guys (Tracer Hand), Friday, 30 April 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
very much looking forward to this!
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 April 2021 18:02 (two years ago) link
This in-universe trailer is good
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 30 April 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
Co host is such a babe
― calstars, Friday, 30 April 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
HI NATHAN JERMAINE SHAWNA AND TRENT
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 April 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link
how do I watch this in the US without breaking the law
― calstars, Friday, 30 April 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
are vpns against the law? does it matter?
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 30 April 2021 19:48 (two years ago) link
Was she on Gervais's After Life? I liked that show despite the bleakness
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 30 April 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
HBO Max got S1 about two years after it aired
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 30 April 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
DRAMATIC SPOILER in the trailer for ep 2!!!
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 1 May 2021 23:32 (two years ago) link
Alan come to America ffs
― calstars, Saturday, 1 May 2021 23:35 (two years ago) link
HBO Max has Knowing Me Knowing You, I'm Alan Partridge, the long versions of Mid Morning Matters, Open Books, Welcome To The Places Of My Life and This Time. Nearly all the other video material is on youtube or dailymotion, the books are available in tree or audio, and From The Oasthouse was exclusive to an American company. Morbs would be able to boxcar about there being too many options to take his measure these days.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 1 May 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link
Alpha Papa is currently free on Hoopla, Kanopy, Tubi, Pluto, Vudu, Roku, and Plex.tv, though it's a terrible place to start.
OTH, TDT and the original radio version of KMKY look to all be on youtube.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 1 May 2021 23:54 (two years ago) link
Radio KMKY is superb.
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 May 2021 23:55 (two years ago) link
yeah, very underrated.
― visiting, Sunday, 2 May 2021 00:00 (two years ago) link
HBO Max has Knowing Me Knowing You, I'm Alan Partridge, the long versions of Mid Morning Matters, Open Books, Welcome To The Places Of My Life and This Time. Nearly all the other video material is on youtube or dailymotion, the books are available in tree or audio, and From The Oasthouse was exclusive to an American company. Morbs would be able to boxcar about there being _too many_ options to take his measure these days.
― calstars, Sunday, 2 May 2021 00:05 (two years ago) link
It seems that Alan's opinion of Lexi has changed.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 2 May 2021 07:48 (two years ago) link
CHEEKY MONKEY!!
― burnt hombre (stevie), Sunday, 2 May 2021 11:46 (two years ago) link
I really enjoyed s02e01, having been quite on the fence about s01. Maybe lockdown has loosened me up, or maybe it was just better, but it was superbly done throughout.
― burnt hombre (stevie), Sunday, 2 May 2021 11:47 (two years ago) link