This Time With Alan Partridge - BBC1 Sitcom

TV sitcom
BBC One
2019 - 2021
12 episodes (2 series)

Alan Partridge returns to BBC television as co-host of an evening weekday magazine show. Stars Steve Coogan, Susannah Fielding, Felicity Montagu, Tim Key, Lolly Adefope and Natasia Demetriou

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This Time With Alan Partridge. Image shows from L to R: Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan), Jennie Gresham (Susannah Fielding). Copyright: Baby Cow Productions

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

2019 - 2021

Channel

BBC One

Episodes

12 (2 series)

Stars

Steve Coogan, Susannah Fielding, Felicity Montagu, Tim Key, Lolly Adefope and Natasia Demetriou

Writers

Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons and Rob Gibbons

Directors

Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons and Dave Lambert

Producers

Ted Dowd, Dave Lambert, Christine Langan, Steve Coogan, Kate Daughton, Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons, Rupert Majendie and more

Company

Baby Cow Productions

Alan Partridge is handed a career lifeline - the chance to stand in (temporarily) as co-host on This Time, an evening weekday magazine show.

His 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.

The show itself is a heady mix of consumer affairs, current affairs, viewer interaction, highbrow interview and lightweight froth; very much the sweet spots for a man whose CV boasts over two decades of weekday local radio. And with an array of diverse subjects on the agenda, it promises the perfect fit for a man whose broadcasting style has been described as "equidistant between chitchat and analysis".