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Actor famed for Ethan Hunt met actor famed for broadcaster Alan Partridge. Steve Coogan recounted the encounter on the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2
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Tuesday, 20th April 2021 at 1:54 pm
Comedy fans, rejoice! Steve Coogan is back in his iconic role of hapless broadcaster Alan Partridge as he presents another series of fluffy magazine show This Time.
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The first series aired back in 2019 and blended Alan’s delightfully awkward hosting of The One Show parody with shorter segments which gave us a peek at what goes on when the cameras aren’t rolling.
It particularly focused on the tension between Alan and his co-presenter Jennie Gresham (Susannah Fielding), ending in a huge fallout between the two that put their future on the show at risk.
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BBC confirms This Time s return
The BBC has confirmed that This Time With Alan Partridge will return on April 30.
Although the first series, which aired in 2019, ended with Alan in trouble with executives over his behaviour towards his co-presenter on the fictional early-evening magazine show,, it appears he has survived.
The BBC has previously said that in season two Steve Coogan’s alter-ego is ‘now established as the show’s co-presenter’, adding that the new episodes will ‘follow Alan on air and off as he tries to cling on to his position, in the face of behind-the-scenes upheaval and [his] fears that his relevance is dwindling’.
Monday, 8th March 2021 at 5:10 pm
McDonald & Dodds has returned for season two, with Tala Gouveia and Jason Watkins playing the ‘odd couple’ detective duo.
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But while fans of the show might be expecting the third episode to air on Sunday 14th March, ITV has confirmed that there will be a pause before the crime drama returns later this year.
The drama continues to explore the working relationship between DCI Lauren McDonald (Gouveia), who series writer Robert Murphy describes as “plunging into genteel Bath like a bull in a China shop” when she arrives from the mean streets of South London, and her sidekick DS Dodds (Watkins), a quiet and underestimated man with a brilliant brain.