I'm Alan Partridge - BBC2 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide

TV sitcom
BBC Two
1997 - 2002
12 episodes (2 series)

Deluded, insincere, tactless and largely talentless TV chat show host Alan Partridge is reduced to hosting a back-water local radio show. Stars Steve Coogan, Felicity Montagu, Simon Greenall, Phil Cornwell, James Lance and more.

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I'm Alan Partridge. Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan). Copyright: Talkback Productions

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

1997 - 2002

Channel

BBC Two

Episodes

12 (2 series)

Stars

Steve Coogan, Felicity Montagu, Simon Greenall, Phil Cornwell, James Lance, Sally Phillips, Barbara Durkin, David Schneider and more

Writers

Steve Coogan, Peter Baynham and Armando Iannucci

Directors

Dominic Brigstocke, Tristram Shapeero and Armando Iannucci

Producers

Armando Iannucci and Peter Fincham

Company

Talkback Productions

After the cancellation of his disastrous television chat show, Knowing Me, Knowing You, we find the eponymous media personality clutching at the remaining straws of his career by hosting a midnight phone-in talk show on local station Radio Norwich.

The first series finds Alan living in the Linton branch of the Travel Tavern hotels chain, chosen because it is "equidistant between London and Norwich", frequently aggravating the long-suffering members of staff whilst scrabbling around for opportunities on BBC TV.

Come the second series, Alan has had a full mental breakdown, moved fully to Norfolk, and taken up residence in a caravan whilst he has a home built. He has a peculiar part-girlfriend relationship with an eastern European lady, Sonja, and whilst still delusional about his own capabilities and level of fame, is no longer plaguing BBC bosses.