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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. ....
TV review by Steve Bennett Without getting too political about it, Alan Partridge is the epitome of the white guy whose career success exceeds his mediocrity… and who might just now be starting to feel under threat. That’s the undercurrent of the second series of This Time, which sees the largely unselfaware host still at the reins of the BBC’s daily magazine show alongside his ever-patient co-host Jennie Gresham (Susannah Fielding), with the disciplinary matter that brought the last series to a close now long-forgotten. But there’s a new producer in town, fresh from E4, and - horror of horrors - he’s introduced a ‘wacca-wacca’ to the theme tune, which is a sure harbinger of change likely to be bad news for Partridge. ....
Steve Coogan and his colleagues on the character s return In these hyper-sensitive times, it takes a man of rare tact and empathy to negotiate the minefield of hot-button racial and gender issues. Step forward, Alan Partridge… While he might represent all that is reactionary, the character is so well-known for his clumsily inappropriate comments that he can get away with jokes on the most delicate of topics, his creator Steve Coogan says. ‘Because I don t think there are any other characters who have survived this long, you can take risks that you couldn t with a new character, he argues. ‘You can talk about things that are problematic or very, very delicate. All the whole post-MeToo landscape, the BLM/BAME issues, all the identity politics that people are very sensitive to, we can actually, with Alan, sort of run at it. And, if we re careful enough, emerge unscathed. ....
Fri 30 Apr 2021 17.00 EDT It is perhaps a slightly coarser, less exquisite agony than in his absolute prime but agony it truly remains. Welcome â if that is the word â to the return of Steve Coogan in the new series of This Time with Alan Partridge (BBC One). Such is the ongoing mastery of his creation â brought again to awful, hilarious life by Coogan and his post-Armando Iannucci collaborators Neil and Rob Gibbons â that I flinch from the pain even as I remember the laughs. Partridge has survived as co-host of the show, a perfect parody of current affairs programmes such as The One Show and Good Morning Britain (with Alan a less secure version of Piers Morgan, their lunging need to be noticed springing from difference founts, and Susannah Fieldingâs Jennie Gresham essaying the Susanna Reid âsmile like itâs not an act of self-harmâ role). âCovering everything! From aqua-aerobics to abortion! From zebras to Zionism!â But a ....
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