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[TV] New Alan Partridge series on the way later this year.
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"Not my words, Carol. The words of Top Gear magazine..................... Hello?"
marcos3263
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I cant watch AP without pacing the room and going into the kitchen, he is so distressingly painfully embarrassing that I can only enjoy it on a second run through.
Therefore the writers are brilliantt and I hope this series is exactly the same although the whole of the series set in the travel lodge is perfection
Therefore the writers are brilliantt and I hope this series is exactly the same although the whole of the series set in the travel lodge is perfection
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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It's changed my perspective on a number of things.
I used to work in a building where you had to walk past a small independent production team to get to the kitchen.
They had a white board with programme ideas.
"World Smallest Prison"
"Hitlers Typewriter"
.. to name but two. All perfectly good ideas but you can't get out of your head THAT MEETING with Tony Hayes.
He's shite
W.C.
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The Spanish
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He was sat opposite me on the train the other day and he was indeed reading a car magazine. Don’t think they are that far apart as characters sometimes....
Klaas
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Was a foul mouthed Peter Purves skulking around?
Don't be blue, Peter
Klaas
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To be honest Greavsey, I don't think anecdotes are your forte.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Alan Partridge is to return in new BBC comedy series And Did Those Feet.
In his new documentary series - And Did Those Feet... With Alan Partridge - we follow the beloved and, to be fair, revered broadcaster as he reintegrates into life in Britain after a year working in Saudi Arabia.
I’ll always give AP a chance. But I’ve been very disappointed with everything since MMM.
Well, the podcast thing was okay. ish.
Just throwing so many things at it lately.
He’s been back on prime time, off prime time (fine, he’s always bouncing back) but then the Oasthouse, to the lighthouse, now to Saudi.
He’s best when he’s bobbling about boring old places like petrol stations with a mini-mart attached. Or a static home. And great when he’s putting his foot in it on provincial radio stations.
The amount of poor Alan output must be starting to outweigh the good stuff now.
We’ll always have the Lintern Travel Tavern.
hart's shirt
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“The kingdom of Saudi Arabia enjoys extensive oil and natural gas reserves, but has also seen economic growth in other areas such as agricultural production, retail trade, construction, and transport. It directs some $69 billion to military expenditure each year. And yet despite all that, I somehow felt incomplete.”
Lenny Rider
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- Sep 15, 2010
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I did think the Network homage, "I've had enough, I want something in the middle", at the end of This Time was classic comedy, espiecally when his pass didn't work to get bakc into the BBC.
Coogan is by all accounts a mixed bag, I've only met him twice, both favourable, but I've heard various horror stories, elsewhere, but there is no doubting he is a comic genius
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Obviously it's going to be brilliant.
Yes, I agree with this. I found This Time very hit and miss (probably more miss than hit).
I noticed his last live show "Stratagem" was on Amazon Prime recently. I thought I'd give it a shot but it ended up being the first AP show I've switched off halfway through. A couple of lines made me chuckle but the rest of it was just a bit cringeworthy, and not in the funny way I'd expect from him.
I might give this a chance though. I think his documentary style content is much better.