Category: Alan Partridge

  • Partridge Inter Series Canon?
    Partridge Inter Series Canon?

    Sometimes two things collide in one day to form an interesting narrative, in a way that life rarely affords. Such a thing happened today. On my feed, I was served up with this wonderful bit of continuity before the first ever episode of I’m Alan Partridge (courtesy of VHS Video Vault). Then a little while…

  • Alan’s Top Tunes
    Alan’s Top Tunes

    Here’s a collection on Alan Partridge’s list of Top Teen Tunes. And here’s the full collection of his hosting bits at the live show.

  • Promoting Me, Promoting You with Alan Partridge
    Promoting Me, Promoting You with Alan Partridge

    Two overseas promos for the Alan Partridge collection for you to peruse today. Does anyone know where the to camera promo from this one is from? It’s clearly made for BBC Two to show, and I don’t recall seeing this one anywhere. Correct me if I’m wrong. And this one for ABC in Australia.

  • Telly Addicted
    Telly Addicted

    I suggested on various platforms last week that Telly Addicts should be bought back, but wondered who might be the new host? Back in the day Noel was cuddly enough for the show, and I’m not sure he’s the best fit for it now. And the show does need a cosy presenter not a slick…

  • Lonely Sitcom Characters
    Lonely Sitcom Characters

    There are more lonely sitcom characters than you might expect. The first one that springs to mind for me is Richie, in Bottom. The whole show is pretty bleak in a Beckett kind of way. Two people who can’t stand one another are forced to live out their shitty existence together, and smash each other…

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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