This Time with Alan Partridge

[Factotum]

Where I think this will be something with immense rewatch value is it is so subtle at times. Also all the hidden bits in the background, or on the screens goes so quick that on a second watch you notice and crack up at it.

The Gibbons brothers, with Coogan, have really layered the character.

[waters44]

 

 

Highlight of Monday’s episode for me 

 

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Edited March 27, 2019 by waters44

[wordsfromlee]

Couple of interesting bits in this. 

https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a26962573/this-time-with-alan-partridge-all-the-tiny-details-youve-probably-missed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app

[SuperBacon]

1 hour ago, wordsfromlee said:

Couple of interesting bits in this. 

https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a26962573/this-time-with-alan-partridge-all-the-tiny-details-youve-probably-missed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app

No 2!!!!!! I never knew that.... ?

[BomberPat]

That might be the most I've ever cringed at a single episode of anything Partridge.

[Jazzy G]

Did they use a real language? What does it actually translate as if it is?

[JNLister]

5 hours ago, scratchdj said:

It also made me realise how much Jennie adds to the show. She was very much missed here

META.

[PunkStep]

13 hours ago, scratchdj said:

I was also starting to get a little bit annoyed at Alan’s new habit of over-emphasising words in a silly voice, and he did it loads in this episode.

You mean when he pronounces anything with a double 'R', like Berry? I don't like that either. I don't remember him doing that in his earlier stuff.

[Factotum]

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You mean when he pronounces anything with a double 'R', like Berry? I don't like that either. I don't remember him doing that in his earlier stuff.

I always assumed he had gone on a pronunciation course when he got back on TV. Like that's how you should pronounce things. Its my own backstory, but that's the thing with Alan, who fecking knows?

[gmoney]

I thought the finale felt very rushed, particularly towards the end, but I did like how he basically turned the TV show into his radio phone in by the end. The police reconstruction bit was also excellent. 

[Factotum]

They're filming a new one in May I think. The way they'll go is that he has become inexplicably popular because of what he's like. Alan will confuse that with him being actually popular (like Piers Morgan)

[Jazzy G]

I winder whether he'd have a new co-presenter, or whether Jennie will be back under duress. I'm surprised they didn't try and include Ruth Duggan in the episode with Alan having to present on his own. That could have been painful. 

[Chris B]

6 hours ago, PunkStep said:

You mean when he pronounces anything with a double 'R', like Berry? I don't like that either. I don't remember him doing that in his earlier stuff.

He started doing it during the Sky Atlantic stuff, when he got his first TV work in a while, as well as in his audiobooks - I saw and listened to these out of order, so I may be a little muddled with the timeline, but I reckon he started doing it with his first audiobook. Since it was his autobiography, he appeared to see it as high art, so upped the pretension factor. If not then, he'd  started doing it by the Sky Atlantic stuff, when he was interviewed at a literary festival.

[CAREBEAR LUVVA]

1 hour ago, jazzygeofferz said:

I winder whether he'd have a new co-presenter, or whether Jennie will be back under duress. I'm surprised they didn't try and include Ruth Duggan in the episode with Alan having to present on his own. That could have been painful. 

I wonder whether you've answered your own question there... Could be amazing if it happens!

[Jazzy G]

Just now, CAREBEAR LUVVA said:

I wonder whether you've answered your own question there... Could be amazing if it happens!

A full series could be a bit much. Maybe an episode would be a start.

Is the new series another series of This Time, or more an I'm Alan Partridge type affair dealing with the fallout from these events.