[tv show] This Time With Alan Partridge

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Link 1: This Time With Alan Partridge: When Steve Coogan’s new BBC show starts and all we know so far

 

...Steve Coogan revealed that This Time With Alan Partridge stars on the BBC in February 2019, airing over six 30-minute episodes.

 

The evening magazine show, which features a tantalising One Show-esque blend of consumer affairs, featurettes and interviews, represents a lifeline for a character whose previous tenure with the Beeb ended in tragedy in the 1990s...

 

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[Arthur]

Aha!

 

Edited February 8, 2019 by Arthur

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[Tim Johns Picture Tweet]

 

Alan Partridge just emailed everyone in the BBC.

 

 

Dear colleague

 

I’m Alan Partridge and tonight sees my return to the BBC for the first time in two decades.

 

Yes, some 24 years after my last presenting gig, the BBC have sidled up to me with a short-term offer to co-present your much-loved magazine show, This Time, standing in for John Baskell who’s been taken ill. My response? Well, although my diary is as clogged as John’s arteries (get well, John!) I have agreed to drop everything and step up.

 

Now, some of you aren’t going to like that. Some of you made clear when I left that I wouldn’t be welcome back; a woman who worked in compliance called Karen or Kate or Kath who had long wavy hair and apparently still works here sneered so hard I thought her face would turn inside out.

 

But back I am, as evidenced by this, my own official BBC email address. And with it I reach out to you, my colleagues – not to gloat, or settle old scores, or say ‘Hey, Karen/Kate/Kath, why don’t you kiss my arse’ – but to be the bigger man and clear the air of any residual stench.

 

No, it’s time for a clean slate and no hard feelings. Because I love the BBC and I always have. While others might say it’s a smug anachronism full of braying, know-nothing chancers doling out fat commissions to their braying, know-nothing Oxbridge mates, I don’t. I think the BBC is great and watch its programmes avidly, regardless of their quality.

 

All I ask is that you return the favour. All of you. From on-screen talent right the way down to off-screen staff. I ask every one of this email’s 20,000+ recipients to tune in tonight at 9.30pm on BBC1. Even if nobody else in the country does, we’re already hitting the kind of numbers my shows were getting on Sky Atlantic. Spread the word to a few more and my viewing figures will show the upward trajectory management is bound to want a piece of.

 

So once again, please, please, please tune in. Please tune in.

 

Your colleague (and I am your colleague)

 

Alan Partridge.

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Alan Partridge out of office reply:

 

 

I’m not in the office so both cannot and will not respond to your email. If your email is urgent, perhaps you should have tried calling instead. The very fact you were content to type out your query long hand and settle back to wait for a reply suggests it can wait, even if you’ve put a red exclamation next to your email to make it stand out in my inbox. Won’t wash with me, that.

 

[Arthur]

[Danp]

Watched this last night, it was painful.

 

I did have a couple of laughs, but I don't think I'll be watching anymore.

Edited February 27, 2019 by Danp

[jthompson]

I watched it last night and loved it. Tim Key's bit was a particular highlight for me.