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before news of allegations against its star, Noel Clarke, broke, it annoyed me a little. Mainly because of chances wasted. We’ve had the thrills of the lengthy interview technique, evinced in Criminal but most superbly in Line of Duty; we’ve had the forensic anthropologists celebrated in Silent Witness: even recently (in Intruder), the lowly family liaison officer. Now was surely the time for those stout souls of 24-hour surveillance teams to be given their midnight in the sun. And yet ...

Fri 30 Apr 2021 17.00 EDT It is perhaps a slightly coarser, less exquisite agony than in his absolute prime but agony it truly remains. Welcome – if that is the word – to the return of Steve Coogan in the new series of This Time with Alan Partridge (BBC One). Such is the ongoing mastery of his creation – brought again to awful, hilarious life by Coogan and his post-Armando Iannucci collaborators Neil and Rob Gibbons – that I flinch from the pain even as I remember the laughs...

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 ...

Q&A with Alan Partridge as This Time returns For the uninitiated, what can you tell us about This Time? It’s what’s known as a magazine show, bottling all of the magic of magazine reading and translating that into 30 minutes of TV. Some people sneer at magazines. But imagine a world without magazines, with readers having to make do with books, newspapers and letters. A chilling prospect. This Time manages to be all your favourite magazines rolled into one. As informative as the Reader’s ...

The Yarra Valley is landing three new wine and dine options Gemima Cody Photo: Imageplay The Yarra Valley may be losing Attica Summer Camp on May 31, but there is plenty of new blood pumping through the vines. Jayden Ong is a co-owner of Cumulus Inc. and has been making wine near Healesville for 10 years. Following in the footsteps of fellow local Mac Forbes, Ong and wife Morgan have opened  Jayden Ong Winery and Cellar Bar, which sits somewhere between a cellar door and a wine bar. The work...