I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan by Alan Partridge
Friday, 14 October 2011The title of Steve Coogan's maligned live comeback tour of 2009, "Alan Partridge and Other Less Successful Characters", told you everything you needed to know about its variable quality. The lingering affection for the headline act, his bumptious broadcaster from Norwich, was enough to save face for that venture, but anyone witnessing this spectacle could not have foreseen the Partridge revival.
I, Partridge picks up the traction given to Steve Coogan's cringeworthy creation by the recent internet series, Mid Morning Matters: shorts set to be lengthened and tailored for television. Then there's that will-they, won't-they, Alan Partridge film. They will, apparently, in 2013, over 20 years since the character invented by Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring first blustered its way into our consciousness on Radio 4's On The Hour.
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