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Strategem with Alan Partridge promises to inform, educate and entertain in approximately equal measure.
His publicity material says: “Wearing a head-mic favoured by TED talkers, market hawkers, TV evangelists, backing singers and carnival barkers, Alan combines all these roles and more. It’s a manifesto for the way we can move forward, a road map to a better tomorrow, an ABC for the way to be.
“Devised, written, choreographed, performed, and funded by Alan Partridge, Stratagem sees Alan not just treading the boards but pounding them, atop stages graced by such luminaries as Michael Ball, Jack Whitehall and Welsh rockers the Stereophonics.
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“The BBC will be desperate for Mercurio to come back with a seventh series but this felt like the right place to end it. I’ve griped about various bits of this show over the years but it stands head and shoulders above most other dramas. It has kept us guessing and kept us talking. And it’s clever. To tie up a story this complex, leaving no loose ends, is a superb achievement.”
“After all the shenanigans and conspiracy, in the end a surprising amount rested on trusting the audience would assume nobody with a Brummie accent could be a master criminal. It worked on me! Whatever Line of Duty’s limitations, few programmes come close to it as a demonstration of pure plotting. It has proved that there is still an appetite for weekly, cliffhanger-laden, jargon-filled chaos, but that’s enough. Let that be an end of it.”