I'm Alan Partridge
- 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.
Streaming rank this week: 175
Press clippings Page 3
The show that shaped me: Ash Atalla on Alan Partridge
The Roughcut TV MD marvels at a fictional career embedded in the hard knocks of the TV industry.
Ash Atalla, Broadcast, 1st April 2019Definitive guide to British comedy since Fawlty Towers
The British are coming, and they want to invade your television. With ... laughter.
Devon Ivie, Vulture, 21st November 20187 real-life Alan Partridges
Here are seven Partridgean presenters who may well empathise with his plight.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 30th November 201710 reasons why Alan Partridge is the perfect life-coach
Hard as it is to believe, it was 25 years ago that Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge first aired on Radio 4.
Mark Monahan, The Telegraph, 28th November 2017Monkey Tennis may yet see the light of day
Peter Bradshaw's timely reminder about the re-emergence of Alan Partridge in Brexit Britain (The revenge of Alan Partridge, G2, 6 November) is underlined by the inclusion in recent TV schedules of such absurd real-life programmes as The Ganges with Sue Perkins and Gordon Ramsey on Cocaine, which might have been dreamed up by the great man in a previous television incarnation. Alan's previous suggestions of Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank and Monkey Tennis are surely now ripe for production.
Quentin Falk, The Guardian, 7th November 201725 of the most 'textbook' Alan Partridge quotes
Here are some of the finest Partridge words of wisdom.
Alex Nelson, i Newspaper, 4th November 2017His time has come: the revenge of Alan Partridge
For two decades, Alan Partridge has been a glorious failure. But now he's made a triumphant return from the Travel Tavern to be the BBC's face of Brexit Britain. We trace his journey from humble football commentator to national icon.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 3rd November 2017Interview: Simon Greenall on playing Mike the Geordie
This week marks the 20th anniversary of I'm Alan Partridge, where we followed the failed Norfolk TV host through his continued fall from grace.
Alex Nelson, i Newspaper, 2nd November 2017Armando Iannucci talks Alan Partridge & Malcolm Tucker
The state of UK politics means there is no need for The Thick of It, and the US political scene is so absurd currently that it would be "beyond sitcom territory" to produce Veep, said the satirist who founded both programmes.
Ellie Price, BBC, 20th October 2017Partridge returns to the BBC as a pro-Brexit broadcaster
Steve Coogan has revealed initial detail of Alan Partridge's return to the BBC next year, as a pro-Brexit voice.
British Comedy Guide, 3rd August 2017