This Time With Alan Partridge
- 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
Streaming rank this week: 826
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This Time with Alan Partridge, episode 3, review
It is a fine exemplar, were any needed, of the extraordinary talents of Steve Coogan, custodian of the Partridge persona.
Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 11th March 2019Gervais & Coogan changed comedy & took different paths
Some 15 years after the birth of Alan Partridge and David Brent, both men are back with new shows. But while Coogan has focused on collaboration, Gervais appears to be working more and more in a vacuum - and it shows.
Tom Nicholson, Esquire, 8th March 2019Has Piers Morgan killed Alan Partridge?
The second episode of This Time has dipped in the ratings. "A-ha!" says his rival host.
The Guardian, 6th March 2019Why have the fans turned on Partridge?
Critics love the latest incarnation of Alan Partridge. But is the old Alan still stuck at the Travel Tavern?
Ed Power, The Telegraph, 5th March 2019As Tony Hayers's widow will testify, Alan Partridge and death aren't always comfortable bedfellows. Tonight, the passing of former This Time presenter John Baskell leaves Alan with the job of co-presenting a sombre tribute. Will he find the right tone? What do you think?
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 4th March 2019This Time with Alan Partridge, episode 2, review
This is television comedy for the connoisseur.
Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 4th March 2019Alan Partridge is the perfect face of Brexit Britain
The result is a bit like BBC Sounds: something has gone slightly wrong on the way. I love Partridge, and always will. I'd rather have him around than not.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 4th March 2019There was something metatextually fascinating about the scheduling on Monday night, when the BBC followed Warren with This Time With Alan Partridge. Steve Coogan's return - remember, this character was created in 1991, and that's some longevity in comedy years - was by and large triumphant. I clutched myself gleefully at the pitch-perfect pastiche of The One Show, replete with fixed grins and soft-soaping and "questions" that a stuffed velveteen rabbit could bat back with a sleepy paw, and sudden shifts to "investigation": goodness, that real-life show is one drift of dreck.
Susannah Fielding is a terrific asset. I''m immensely looking forward to further intense interplay between those two egos sitting slightly too forcedly close together on the couch. Partridge now has just enough (intensely hard-won) self-knowledge to know when he's flubbed something; his tragedy is that it can never be enough to prevent re-flub, often before the mouth has closed. Grand already and can get only better.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 3rd March 2019BBC orders another Alan Partridge show
The BBC has ordered another show starring the character Alan Partridge. Co-writers and directors Neil Gibbons and Rob Gibbons have revealed they are due to shoot the new TV series in May, which will see "Alan trying his hand at something else".
British Comedy Guide, 3rd March 2019TV review: This Time with Alan Partridge
hat, oh what, are we going to do with poor darling Alan Partridge? Alan is back for his sixth -- can it be? -- TV series, and he is now looking weirder and more awkward than ever, parachuted inexplicably onto a primetime sofa for a new outing.
Camilla Long, The Times, 3rd March 2019