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TELLYBOX: Laughs from Alan Partridge revival and the tragic story of Dale Barclay By David Pollock May 1 2021, 10.15am This year is the 30th anniversary of Alan Partridge’s first appearance on the BBC Radio 4 comedy On the Hour, making the character as much a part of the UK’s broadcasting furniture as those he was originally created to mock. These were guileless sports reporters, self-obsessed magazine show hosts and Richard Madeley, mainly. Alan has enjoyed success with 1994’s exc...

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 seri...

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. Advertisement 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 ...

BBC confirms This Times return The BBC has confirmed that This Time With Alan Partridge will return on April 30. Although the first series, which aired in 2019, ended with  Alan in trouble with executives over his behaviour towards his co-presenter on the fictional early-evening magazine show,, it appears he has survived. The BBC has previously said that in season two Steve Coogan’s alter-ego is ‘now established as the show’s co-presenter’, adding that the new episodes will ‘follow...