Filming began with an incomplete script, and Coogan and the Gibbons brothers rewrote much of it on the set. The rushed production was difficult; Coogan and Iannucci disagreed on the script, morale was low, and there were problems with casting and funding. In his memoir, Coogan wrote that it was the hardest he had ever worked and the loneliest he had ever felt; however, he was proud of the finished film. [19] Alpha Papa was critically acclaimed [27] and opened at number one at the box office in the UK and Ireland. [28] 2015–2019: Scissored Isle and This Time [ edit ] Heritage, Stuart (4 April 2014). "Alan Partridge: a guide for Americans, newcomers and American newcomers". The Guardian . Retrieved 14 September 2015. On 7 August 2013, a feature film, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, was released in the UK. It was directed by Declan Lowney [25] and co-produced by StudioCanal and Baby Cow Productions, with support from BBC Films and the BFI Film Fund. [26] The film sees Partridge enlisted as a crisis negotiator during a siege at his radio station. [24]

A merciless piss-take of every bullshit 'personal journey' every celeb ever undertook, as Alan undertakes the Footsteps Of My Father TM walk to come to terms with the memory of his late father, and definitely not because he's under the mistaken belief he might get a new TV series out of it (because he's perfectly happy working on North Norfolk Digital's mid-morning slot, OK? He even explains why it's really much better than certain other slots which people might mistakenly consider higher profile). I know some people say you need the audiobooks for these, but really, can't we all inwardly read them in the appropriate Partridge voice? I've somehow missed his previous book, but what really came through for me more here than on TV are the way the character's grounded in multiple layers of deceit - obviously there are the things he knows but refuses to admit to the reader, but then beneath those are the things he genuinely doesn't see, despite their being incredibly obvious to everyone else (though oddly, for me this was least successful in the chapter giving his version of events in the Alpha Papa film, where we've actually seen what went down - it felt like over-egging the pudding somehow, when the rest of the book is so good at making the actual events so clear just by implication). I'd almost say 'poor bastard' if only his ilk weren't running the world.

Crace, John (28 March 2014). "TV review: Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life; Veep; Walking and Talking". The Guardian . Retrieved 14 September 2015. The index, I should say, is excellent in and of itself. A very good blog by the Society of Indexers’s Paula Clarke Bain goes into it in more detail than I have space to here, but a handful of entries will give the flavour: Nomad is like listening to Close to the Edge; I am comfortable knowing I will never escape its influence, nor will I come close to achieving its genius. Craig, David (22 December 2020). "This Time with Alan Partridge to return with season 2 in 2021". Radio Times . Retrieved 22 December 2020.

Curtis, Daniel (7 August 2017). "We laughed at Alan Partridge – little did we realise he heralded the age of Donald Trump". New Statesman . Retrieved 2 August 2018.Drumm, Diana (28 March 2014). "Review: Why Alan Partridge isn't just for Steve Coogan fans". IndieWire . Retrieved 14 September 2015. Richardson, Hollie; Frizzell, Nell; Bharadia, Priya (24 August 2023). "Best podcasts of the week: Alan Partridge solves the culture wars, grandparenting and more". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 3 September 2023.

There aren't many comic actors who have grown into their characters the way Steve Coogan has grown into Alan Partridge. When Partridge first appeared in On The Hour in 1991, he was a sort of generic parody of sports presenters, mashed increasingly with a nightmarish caricature of Richard Madeley. (Anyone who has met Madeley will be able to tell you that he basically is Alan Partridge.) Then, Steve Coogan was a 26-year-old playing a middle-aged man. Now, he's 52 himself, and has more or less resigned himself to inhabiting the character with alarming verisimilitude. Christmas Night with the Stars - British Classic Comedy". British Classic Comedy. 21 December 2015 . Retrieved 6 June 2016. Surveillance isn’t easy, though. You’ll need warm clothes, a camera with telephoto lens, two Thermos flasks (one for tea, t’other for wee) and for God’s sake remember your sandwiches.” This being Partridge, the endeavour doesn’t quite go to plan, and he takes a massive ill-advised detour, despite a self-inflicted wound getting rather grisly, described in grusomely funny passages.I, myself, would never shoot big game (and would hesitate to even lay traps for them). You see, as a committed animal liker – #animals – I think very carefully about which animals I am and am not prepared to kill.” If you don't know, Alan Partridge, you probably wouldn't have a clue what is going on, though. I can't praise this book enough, and the writing is outstanding. Surveillance isn’t easy, though. You’ll need warm clothes, a camera with telephoto lens, two Thermos flasks (one for tea, t’other for wee) and for GOD’s SAKE remember your sandwiches!” Alan Partridge's 10 Most Alan Partridge-y Moments Ever | NME.COM". NME.COM . Retrieved 3 December 2015. First off, if you’re not a fan of Alan Partridge - and amazingly some people aren’t - then you won’t enjoy this book. Give it a miss. But if, like me, you are then this is something you really should read.

Coogan and co-writers Rob and Neil Gibbons really hit the mark with Nomad. Terrible adjectives and ridiculous metaphors. Clumsy use of grammar Awkward sentence formation. Overblown vocabulary. Its all here. And its all hilarious. Alan Partridge inspires city art exhibition - BBC News". BBC News. 31 July 2015 . Retrieved 14 September 2015. 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, he has appeared in media including radio and television series, books, podcasts and a feature film. A collection of radio shows, TV series and one-off specials linked by the appearance, either as a significant recurring role or as a main character, of Alan Partridge, a hapless, socially inept and idiotic sports commentator-turned TV chat-show host-turned local radio personality played by Steve Coogan. Gill, AA (14 February 2010). "Sir Christopher Meyer makes his move for more telly work". The Sunday Times.Another volume of pedantic, over-wrought, stylistically and tonally muddled prose from a man who once again comes across as petty, parochial and ludicrously vain,” one buyer writes. For those of you familiar with the work of Partridge, he does ‘over-share’ and in typical praeteritio style he plummets to great depths of poor taste, over the top open disclosure and unashamed narcissism. We learn about his sex-life (he admits he’s pretty good) and his various hygiene habits. One example that had me literally in hysterics was: The plot of the book, such as it is, concerns Partridge’s attempt to follow in the footsteps of his late father by hiking from his beloved Norwich to the Dungeness “A” Nuclear Reactor – where Partridge Sr once apparently had a job interview he never showed up for. Demented by his envy of well-paid TV travellers Julia Bradbury, Clare Balding and Michael Portillo, and lust for Bradbury, Alan cobbles together this idea in the hope of securing a series on terrestrial TV. Lionel Gordon was my father, but some people say father’s stop being your father when they’re dead” Edmonds put his feet up on the table and folded his arms, and for the next hour he roared with laughter at my nascent TV work. At one point he saw former Radio 1 DJ Mike Read walk past the door, and Edmonds invited him in, even though Read didn’t even work at the BBC any more and had moved on to Gold, or Classic or something – or one those other commercial stations with names that sound like a chocolate bar.