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By Alison Rowat Senior politics and features writer
Noel Clarke starred in the five-part thriller, Viewpoint ARE you ready for the Line of Duty finale? It has been six often confusing weeks, but here we are, the last sprint to the finish and … well, what? Can we expect to see the fourth man, “H”, unmasked? Will Ted’s ever expanding cast of biblical characters, now standing at “Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the wee donkey,” grow even larger? And what, pray, is a “Glasgow city coroner”? The penultimate episode had the coroner howler, made by DI Steve Arnott, in what was a slow-burner of an instalment, setting up what is either going to be a doozy of a final or an infuriating opener for a seventh series.
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The world changes, but Alan Partridge is eternal. Thirty years after his radio debut, Norfolkâs favourite turtlenecked son is still going strong, with a second series of
This Time following on from â deep breath â
On The Hour, The Day Today, Knowing Me Knowing You, Iâm Alan Partridge, Alpha Papa, Mid Morning Matters, Scissored Isleâ¦Â The list continues is the point, and so does Partridge.
Alan and his cohost Jennie Gresham are back to cover everything (as Alan bellows in the cold open) âFrom aqua aerobics to abortion, from zebras to Zionismâ. Their guests have been booked and itâs all the usual bright sub-
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.
Why Tim Key’s poems are the only thing getting me through lockdown Matt Boytwitch, Rishi Perfect, Bohnson on a swing in the Downing Street rose garden – the comedian has produced some of the greatest political cartoons of the pandemic. The poet and comedian Tim Key is not a political man. He can express opinions on the government one-on-one, “when I’m on safe ground”, he tells me, but not, say, at a dinner party. Yet Key s poems are some of the greatest political cartoons of the pandemic. Those he wrote in the past year – roughly one per day
– fell broadly into two categories: the things that people were doing at home during lockdown, and the things being done on the 5pm broadcasts, every day, at No 10, in the room with the flowery carpet.