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BlinkyBear

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On 10/06/2017 at 00:00, NexivRed said:

How did I not know this thread existed?! Literally at least 13% of my vocabulary is Patridge. 

 

On a side note, this cheered me up. 

 

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Did think he'd be a big ol' Tory. But naah ^_^

He's been a vocal and active Labour campaigner for years. Very passionate and very, VERY anti-Tory/Murdock. Which is why I always found the Sky Atlantic 'shilling' a bit 'wrong'. 

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Anne Summers

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An actual second series of the Knowing Me Knowing You With Alan Partridge would be amazing after all of this time. 

Not sure how it would fit into the narrative of Alan's life off-screen that's been built up since I'm Alan Partridge. 

Best case scenario would be another series of IAP showing him somehow having enough success or becoming popular again to warrant another series, followed by an actual another series of KMKYWAP.

 

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NickC

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The great thing about how Partridge has developed since Mid-Morning Matters and I, Partridge is that there are so many directions it could potentially go in.

 

I’d love to see him host a talent contest of some sort with the fly on the wall following him off camera. 

 

Or maybe a series where he guest hosts a bunch of real or knock-off TV shows – Breakfast, the One Show, Bargain Hunt, Springwatch etc.

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Anne Summers

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5 hours ago, Nicky said:

i always felt KMKY was much weaker than IAP. i'd like to see him in a totally incompetent directorial role at Norfolk Digital or more on his Military Show

It was much weaker but I reckon that's as much to do with the way Coogan and the people writing the show have matured, and the way the character has aged. Alan was a pretty young man in KMKY, even though he's obviously always supposed to have seemed middle-aged. A KMKY with Partridge as he is now, rather than how he was back then, could be all sorts of amazing. 
Obviously the ideas for what he could do next are pretty much unlimited though, and any of them could potentially be just as amazing. 

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Capwn

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I've started listening to the 'My Dad wrote a porno" podcast recently and there are times where it sounds like Alan Partridge wrote it. Wouldn't be a great idea if Alan Partridge once wrote an erotic novel and did an audiobook where he reads it out?

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panda_t

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I'm months late for replying here about relative merits of different Partridge things, but radio KMKY is maybe my favourite comedy ever so I'm going to weigh in: I think radio KMKY is maybe the best Partridge full stop, but yeah, telly KMKY they apparently had to do really quickly (writing it in about 6 weeks I think?) and it's a massive shame how it came out (even things like the studio being weirdly massive for no reason is bad when lots of AP is about nuance, just little bits of phrasing or delivery or whatever, that aspace just swamps it). I don't actually like I'm AP much, it's too Peter Baynham-y where he's fascinated with squalor (Baynham replaced Patrick Marber after they left radio). I know Armando Iannucci's said he thought series 2 of that was weak.
I'd love to see Partridge do TV formats that deserve him, like a Who Do You Think You Are? or Springwatch or some gameshow (when things like Tipping Point are on..). I really liked Scissored Isle.
I also have a theory that he's at his best when he's half being a hero, like a representative of us saying things we'd filter out or just outright saying something truthful that people tiptoe around normally, it's a really interesting dynamic when he's like that (there's a bit from radio KMKY where a Tory MP says 'we've been doing what needed doing, getting rates down, getting taxes down, and not handing out money but handing out hope" and Alan says approvingly "getting rid of those gypsies").
 

Just in case anyone's not heard the radio stuff:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1H3lY0eWP4HYml5TWtsTVpNcUE?usp=sharing

 

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