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''This Time with Alan Partridge'' is a British sitcom first broadcast in 2019 on
BBC One
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's flagship network and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, ...
. It stars
Steve Coogan as the inept broadcaster
Alan Partridge
Alan Gordon Partridge is a comedy character portrayed by the English actor Steve Coogan. A parody of British television personalities, Partridge is a tactless and inept broadcaster with an inflated sense of celebrity. Since his debut in 1991, h ...
in a
spoof of current affairs programmes such as ''
The One Show
''The One Show'' is a British television magazine and chat show programme. Broadcast live on BBC One weeknights at 7:00 pm, it features topical stories and studio guests. It is currently co-hosted by Alex Jones, Jermaine Jenas, and Ronan K ...
'' and ''
Good Morning Britain''.
After a series of productions with
Sky, ''This Time'' was the first
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Alan Partridge production since ''
I'm Alan Partridge'' ended in 2002''.''
plays Partridge's co-host Jennie, and
Tim Key
Timothy David Key (born September 1976) is an English poet, comedian, actor, screenwriter and radio personality. He is best known for playing Alan Partridge's sidekick Simon in '' Mid Morning Matters'', '' Alpha Papa'', and '' This Time'', as ...
and
Felicity Montagu
Felicity Jane Montagu (born 12 September 1960) is an English actress. She is best known for playing Lynn Benfield, the long-suffering assistant of Alan Partridge.
Early life
Montagu was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, to Lieutenant-Co ...
reprise their roles as Simon Denton and Partridge's assistant Lynn Benfield. The series received generally favourable reviews. A second series was broadcast in 2021.
Premise
Alan Partridge
Alan Gordon Partridge is a comedy character portrayed by the English actor Steve Coogan. A parody of British television personalities, Partridge is a tactless and inept broadcaster with an inflated sense of celebrity. Since his debut in 1991, h ...
, an inept broadcaster played by
Steve Coogan, becomes the stand-in presenter of ''This Time'' after the regular co-host falls ill.
According to ''
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
'', the show features "Partridgean tirades on everything from hand hygiene (leading him to lurk outside the BBC toilets doing spot-checks on colleagues) to hacking".
Production
Partridge was created in 1991 by Coogan and
Armando Iannucci
Armando Giovanni Iannucci (; born 28 November 1963) is a Scottish satirist, writer, director, producer, performer, and panellist. Born in Glasgow to Italian parents, Iannucci studied at the University of Glasgow followed by the University of ...
. Following early Partridge shows such as ''
Knowing Me, Knowing You'' and ''
I'm Alan Partridge,'' produced by the BBC, ''This Time'' was the first BBC Partridge project following several
Sky productions.
It was produced by Coogan's production company
Baby Cow Productions
Baby Cow Productions Ltd is a British comedy television production company based in London and Manchester, founded by Steve Coogan and Henry Normal. Since its establishment it has diversified into radio, animation and film. According to their ...
, written by Coogan and the
Gibbons brothers, directed by the Gibbons brothers, and produced by
Ted Dowd.
Coogan felt it was the right time for Partridge to return, and that he might represent the views of
Brexit
Brexit (; a portmanteau of "British exit") was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) at 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2020 (00:00 1 February 2020 CET).The UK also left the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC ...
voters.
Neil Gibbons said the world of live television presenting had changed since Partridge had been created: "If someone fluffed a line or got someone’s name wrong or said something stupid, it was mortifying. But nowadays, those are the sort of people who are given jobs on TV."
He likened Partridge to presenters such as
Piers Morgan
Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (; né O'Meara; born 30 March 1965) is a British broadcaster, journalist, writer, and television personality. He began his Fleet Street career in 1988 at ''The Sun (United Kingdom), The Sun''. In 1994, aged 29, he was ...
, who he felt had been hired to present ''
Good Morning Britain'' because he said offensive things. Coogan and the Gibbonses ignored this because "if you put Alan in a world where his crass buffoonery is part of the selling point, there's nowhere for him to fall".
A second series was produced in 2020, and was broadcast on BBC One from 30 April 2021.
Reception
''This Time with Alan Partridge'' has received mostly positive reviews.
Lucy Mangan
Lucy Katherine Mangan''England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2007'' (born 1974) is a British journalist and author. She is a columnist, features writer and TV critic for ''The Guardian''. A major part of her writing is related t ...
of ''The Guardian'' wrote that "the differentiation of ''This Time With Alan Partridge''s layers and escalation of every exchange is precision-engineered: beautiful things and a joy forever." Tim Glanfield of ''
Radio Times'' felt it was "some of the best Alan Partridge ever made". Sean O'Grady of ''
The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publish ...
'' gave it five stars, and found it "a consistently strong creative achievement". The segment with Steve Coogan as Martin Brennan (the
Irish
Irish may refer to:
Common meanings
* Someone or something of, from, or related to:
** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
Alan Partridge lookalike who closes the show with
Irish Republican Army
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is a name used by various paramilitary organisations in Ireland throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Organisations by this name have been dedicated to irredentism through Irish republicanism, the belief th ...
songs) was described by
Raidió Teilifís Éireann as "TV moment of the year", which would be remembered "in the canon of truly great Partridge moments."
Hugo Rifkind
Hugo James Rifkind (born 30 March 1977) is a British journalist. A columnist for ''The Times'' since 2005, he began presenting a Saturday morning programme on Times Radio in July 2020. He has been a regular guest on ''The News Quiz'', on BBC Ra ...
of ''
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (f ...
'' was less positive, saying "Only very occasionally does it soar into unexpected places. Still, for a character that came along a quarter of a century ago and still isn't old, maybe fresh delights are a bit too much to ask." Writing for ''
Prospect'', Lucinda Smyth argued "''This Time'' is... OK. But it is not the best of British television, it's not even the best of Coogan, and it undermines both to say so... I don't mean to say that there haven't been a few gems in ''This Time''. But overall the timing is patchy, the belly-laughs are few, and the script is tiringly Alan-centric."
The television host
Piers Morgan
Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (; né O'Meara; born 30 March 1965) is a British broadcaster, journalist, writer, and television personality. He began his Fleet Street career in 1988 at ''The Sun (United Kingdom), The Sun''. In 1994, aged 29, he was ...
, who is spoofed by ''This Time'', said that Coogan was "trying to exact revenge on me because he now hates everything to do with newspapers... I used to love Alan Partridge, he used to be hilarious, brilliant. It is now utterly unwatchable. Because Coogan has disappeared up his derrière, unfortunately."
Cast
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Steve Coogan as
Alan Partridge
Alan Gordon Partridge is a comedy character portrayed by the English actor Steve Coogan. A parody of British television personalities, Partridge is a tactless and inept broadcaster with an inflated sense of celebrity. Since his debut in 1991, h ...
*
as Jennie Gresham
*
Tim Key
Timothy David Key (born September 1976) is an English poet, comedian, actor, screenwriter and radio personality. He is best known for playing Alan Partridge's sidekick Simon in '' Mid Morning Matters'', '' Alpha Papa'', and '' This Time'', as ...
as Simon Denton
*
Lolly Adefope
Ololade "Lolly" Adefope (born 14 September 1990) is a British stand-up comedian and actress, specialising in character comedy. She is known for playing the role of Fran in the Hulu comedy series '' Shrill'', and as Kitty, the ghost of a Georgia ...
as Ruth Duggan
*
Felicity Montagu
Felicity Jane Montagu (born 12 September 1960) is an English actress. She is best known for playing Lynn Benfield, the long-suffering assistant of Alan Partridge.
Early life
Montagu was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, to Lieutenant-Co ...
as Lynn Benfield
*
Natasia Demetriou
Natasia Charlotte Demetriou is an English comedian, actress, and screenwriter. She is best known for her roles as Nadja in the FX horror comedy series '' What We Do in the Shadows'' (2019–present) and Sophie in the Channel 4 sitcom '' Stath L ...
as Tiff (Series 2)
*
*Alex Dee as Floor Manager
Guest appearances
Series 1 (2019)
Episode 1
*
Emily Maitlis
Emily Maitlis (born 6 September 1970) is a British journalist, documentary filmmaker, and former newsreader for the BBC. She was the lead anchor until the end of 2021 of ''Newsnight'', the BBC Two news and current affairs programme.
Early lif ...
as herself
*
Cariad Lloyd as Alice Fluck
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Priyanga Burford as Jean Chaudhary
Episode 2
*
Peter Wight as John Baskell
*
Angela Curran
Angela Curran is an English actress, known for '' Death at a Funeral'' (2007), ''Jane Eyre'' (2011) and '' The Danish Girl'' (2015).
In 2003, Curran had her own one woman show, ''Happy Talk'', broadcast on Radio 3.
She appeared as security gu ...
as Annie
*
Simon Farnaby as Sam Chatwin
Episode 3
*
Jonathan Watson as Dale Daniels
Episode 4
*
Monty Don
Montagu Denis Wyatt Don (born George Montagu Don; 8 July 1955) is a British horticulturist, broadcaster, and writer who is best known as the lead presenter of the BBC gardening television series '' Gardeners' World''.
Born in Germany and rais ...
as himself
Episode 5
*
Ellie White
Ellie White (born 1989) is an English comedy actress. She is best known for playing Princess Beatrice of York in the British royal family parody, '' The Windsors'' (2016–2020), and Katia in the sitcom, ''Stath Lets Flats'' (2018–2021).
...
as Dee Gilhooly
Episode 6[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9789983/?ref_=ttep_ep6 ]
*
Katy Wix
Katy Victoria J Wix (born 28 February 1980) is a Welsh actress, writer, author and artist. She is best known for her television roles as Carole in ''Stath Lets Flats,'' Mary in ''Ghosts'' and Jules in '' Big Boys''. She has also appeared as a s ...
as Susan Lyle
Series 2 (2021)
Episode 1
*
Leila Farzad
Leila Effat Farzad ( fa, لیلا عفت فرزاد; born 1983) is an English actress. She plays Naomi Jones in the Sky Atlantic series ''I Hate Suzie'', which earned her a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 2021 BAFTA awards.
Early l ...
as Clarissa Hoskin
*
Simon Kunz
Simon Charles Kunz (born 15 October 1962) is an actor on stage and screen.
Early life
He attended Latymer Upper School, then completed a degree in Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick.
Career
He appeared in '' The Parent Trap'' as Ma ...
as Father Paul
*
Simon Farnaby as Sam Chatwin
Episode 2
*
John Thomson as Joe Beasley
*
Colin Hoult as Howard
*
Clive Hayward as Maurice
Episode 3
*
Matt Smith
Matthew Robert Smith (born 28 October 1982) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC series '' Doctor Who'' (2010–2013), Daemon Targaryen in the HBO series '' House of the Dr ...
as Dan Milner
*
Nigel Lindsay
Nigel Lindsay (born 17 January 1969) is an English actor. He is best known on television for his roles as Sir Robert Peel in the first two seasons of ''Victoria'', Jo Jo Marshall in the Netflix series '' Safe'' and as Barry in the BAFTA-winni ...
as Tommy
*
Rosie Cavaliero
Rosalind Cecilia Cavaliero (born 27 November 1967) is a Brazilian-born English actress. She has appeared in numerous television roles.
Filmography
Theatre work
* ''Dracula'' at the Everyman, Cheltenham – Florrie (February 1995)
* ''Airswi ...
as Rosie Whitter
Episode 5
*
Nick Mohammed
Nicholas George Mohammed (born 4 October 1980) is an English actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for his character Mr. Swallow, which he has portrayed across both stage and television for over a decade. Outside of the United Kingdom, M ...
as Bhavit Sharma
Episode 6
*
Alex Lowe
Stewart Alexander Lowe (24 December 1958 – 5 October 1999) was an American mountaineer. He has been described as inspiring "...a whole generation of climbers and explorers with his uncontainable enthusiasm, legendary training routines, and si ...
as Hugh Bevell
*
Eleanor Matsuura
Eleanor Matsuura is a British actress best known for her roles as Yumiko in '' The Walking Dead'', Hannah Santo in '' Spooks: The Greater Good'', Bev in ''Utopia'' and as PC Donna Prager in ''Cuffs''.
Early life
Matsuura was born in Tokyo and r ...
as Professor Rebecca Burns
Episodes
Series 1 (2019)
Series 2 (2021)
References
External links
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2010s British satirical television series
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