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Alan Partridge and Jennie Gresham on This Time with Alan Partridge.
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And the 3.8-mile dual carriageway, which will link the Broadland Northway to the A47 to the west of the city, has now come under scrutiny from Norfolk s own Alan Partridge.
In the latest episode of the second series of This Time with Alan Partridge, broadcast on Friday night, Alan and co-presenter Jennie Gresham discussed the road and a county rent asunder by the debate.
The Norwich Western Link route map.
- Credit: Norfolk County Council
During the debate, Alan revealed his credentials as Norwich car ambassador and said: I do what I can to encourage people to make a journey, wherever possible, by car, and do what I can to promote car use and car ownership throughout the county.
TELLYBOX: Laughs from Alan Partridge revival and the tragic story of Dale Barclay By David Pollock May 1 2021, 10.15am
This year is the 30th anniversary of Alan Partridge’s first appearance on the BBC Radio 4 comedy On the Hour, making the character as much a part of the UK’s broadcasting furniture as those he was originally created to mock.
These were guileless sports reporters, self-obsessed magazine show hosts and Richard Madeley, mainly.
Alan has enjoyed success with 1994’s excruciating spoof chat show Knowing Me, Knowing You, and cult fly-on-the-wall infamy with I’m Alan Partridge (1997 and 2002), one of the best and smartest comedies of its time.
TV tonight: More on-air tirades and faux pas from Alan Partridge
Felicity Montagu, Susannah Fielding, Tim Key, Lolly Adefope, and Steve Coogan in This Time with Alan Partridge. Photograph: Gary Moyes/BBC/Baby Cow/Matt Burlem
Felicity Montagu, Susannah Fielding, Tim Key, Lolly Adefope, and Steve Coogan in This Time with Alan Partridge. Photograph: Gary Moyes/BBC/Baby Cow/Matt Burlem
Steve Coogan’s masterly spoof of the chatshow, This Time With Alan Partridge, returns for a second series. Plus: Intergalactic. Here’s what to watch this evening
Fri 30 Apr 2021 01.20 EDT
This Time With Alan Partridge
9.30pm, BBC One
Steve Coogan’s beloved and bumbling broadcaster Alan Partridge returns for another spoof of sedate magazine shows such as The One Show and This Morning. Accompanied by eternally patient fellow host Jennie Gresham (Susannah Fielding), the second season follows Partridge as he is now established as the show’s co-presenter but is battling behind the scenes to keep
Review
This Time with Alan Partridge, review: still an exquisite send up – but with a little too much Coogan
4/5
30 April 2021 • 10:00pm
Steve Coogan, Susannah Fielding and Simon Farnaby
Credit: BBC
The BBC schedules have been a bit of a comedy wasteland lately, so hooray for the return of
This Time with Alan Partridge (BBC One), in which our hero has put his Travel Tavern years firmly behind him and secured a permanent place as the main presenter of this terrible teatime show.
The writing, by brothers Neil and Rob Gibbons plus Coogan, exquisitely sends up the banality of programmes like The One Show. “Welcome to the show that covers the full spectrum of human life… from aqua-aerobics to abortion, from zebras to Zionism.” Susannah Fielding maintains that perma-smile as Alan’s long-suffering host, Jennie Gresham, and you feel that she could slot into any real-life magazine show without anyone realising she was a comedy performer.