This Time with Alan Partridge: BBC reveals full details of new show about Norfolk-based Radio DJ
It sounds remarkably like The One Show
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Your support makes all the difference.The BBC has finally begun filming their upcoming Alan Partridge project, the broadcaster detailing what exactly the highly-anticipated return will entail.
Steve Coogan’s character will act as the temporary co-host of This Time, a fictional evening weekday magazine show that sounds remarkably like The One Show, marking Partridge’s “first return to live television since his 90s chat show Knowing Me, Knowing You was cancelled after a guest was fatally shot on air.”
“This Time is the perfect shop window for a man of Alan’s gravitas and will, or should, see him finally recognised as one of the heavyweight broadcasters of his era,” a press release reads.
This show itself is described as featuring a mix of “consumer affairs, current affairs, viewer interaction, highbrow interview and lightweight froth,” the perfect platform for a heavyweight broadcaster of such experience.
This Time With Alan Partridge marks the character’s first major appearance on the BBC since the sitcom I’m Alan Partridge, which ended in 2002. Since then, Coogan has played the controversial broadcaster on various occasions, the most notable being the film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.
Susannah Fielding, best known for appearing in The Great Outdoors and Black Mirror, will play Partridge’s co-presenter Jennie Gresham, while Tim Key returns as Sidekick Simon.
Previously, comedy scribe Neil Gibbons tweeted a picture of the first episode’s script with the caption: “It lives.”
The six-part series is scheduled to broadcast later this year.
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