Category: Alan Partridge
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Did Alan Partridge Nearly Buy Mrs Warboys’ House?
Let’s preface this nonsense with two things. First, in universe, of course Alan didn’t. He was looking at a house in Norfolk, and Mrs Warboys lives somewhere else. Second, I always presumed that the house viewing scene from A Room With An Alan was shot on location. But on the DVD commentary track, Armando Iannucci…
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Some Partridge Bookends
I’ve shared this clip before, but it strikes me how oddly incongruent this moment is. The Techincal BAFTAs take a moment out of their time to have this sketch, for no other reason that just because. It’s especially strange, considering how new the Partridge character was on screens – this was even before Knowing Me,…
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Laugh Track Partridge
Just where did the seemingly prevalent misconception that the first series of I’m Alan Partridge didn’t have a laugh track, while series two did, actually come from? I remember a friend bemoaning this fact to me at the time of the second series being broadcast, and I was perplexed by it. I didn’t have a…
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Alan Behaving Badly
In the week that I’m Alan Partridge first aired, we also got to see a new series by Ray Galton (Get Well Soon), and a new series of Men Behaving Badly. Maggie Brown wrote about all three sitcoms in The Stage on Thursday 13th November 1997.
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Awful Alan
On the weekend before Alan Partridge’s new chat show Knowing Me, Knowing You … arrived on BBC Two screens, he gave a short interview to the Daily Mirror. This is how it appeared on Saturday 10th September, 1994. Then, the day before the show began, this snooty (but probably prescient) warning arrived in the pages…
