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Alan Partridge, Steve Coogan's iconic, seemingly never-dying, hapless media presenter comedy character, will be returning in a new BBC series, And Did Those Feet.. with Alan Partridge The six-part show will follow the cluelessly out-of-touch host as he reintegrates into life in Britain after a year of living in Saudi Arabia Or tries to anyway[...]

Tonight sees the return of Alan Partridge to the BBC Steve Coogan's sports reporter-turned-chatshow host character was first created for BBC Radio 4's On The Hour, before getting spinoffs Knowing Me Knowing You With Alan Partridge, The Day Today and I'm Alan Partridge, becoming the country's biggest comedy character until Ricky Gervais and Steven Merchant[...]

From his beginnings working with Steve Coogan on the Alan Partridge series, Iannucci is best known for his unique brand of political satire with television series The Thick of It and the film In the Loop as well as his recently premiered Toronto Film Festival feature The Death of Stalin. In an April 2017 interview with[...]

He might have told you some basic facts – the film is out on August 7th; or linked you to some past coverage – use the tags below, I guess; or he could have noted how the film now seems to be called Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, which is longer than it used to be. Or[...]

It's been years without any new Alan Patridge material in the UK, and fans of Steve Coogan's Norwich-based sports reporter-turned-chatshow host have been kept bobbing along by repeats on Dave and the promises of a movie. And then out of the blue, Australian lager Fosters commissions a series of short Alan Partridge mini-episodes revolving around his[...]