This Time with Alan Partridge - Season 1
Alan is handed a career lifeline - the chance to stand in (temporarily) as co-host on This Time, a weekday magazine show. But can he capitalise on the opportunity?
1968
2 April 1973, Darlington, County Durham, England, UK
May 5, 1988 in Hillingdon, London
1968, England, UK
March 20, 2019
The television signal could have cut out six minutes from the end of Monday's episode of Steve Coogan's This Time with Alan Partridge and I'd still have spent the remainder of the evening grinning like an idiot.
March 05, 2019
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.
March 04, 2019
The genius isn't in the gags as such, even though they are fine gags, as in the small details like the fact it took him slightly too long to walk across the studio to conduct an interview.
March 04, 2019
The level of invention was low and the viewer was left wondering if this marvelous comic creation shouldn't have been left to our memories and to reruns.
March 01, 2019
Susannah Fielding sparkles in [her] role.
February 27, 2019
Something has gone slightly wrong on the way... The territory, gauche and ghastly, is too familiar to be wholly funny.
February 26, 2019
If this sounds painful, don't bother. But if larky, occasionally agonising jokes are your bag, Partidge is still the master.
March 01, 2019
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.
March 08, 2019
There's a sharp skewering of disposable TV journalist going on here but the bottom line is that Coogan/Partridge understands that we all like a daft bit of schoolboy/girl humour.
March 01, 2019
This Time is a much more trenchant comedy than the BBC satire W1A. You don't have to care about life in the media to relish the spectacle of Alan Partridge making another hideous mess of his life.
March 07, 2019
This Time brings Alan back, in all his glory and his tragedy, at just the right time.
March 04, 2019
The writing is stilted, the jokes were leaden: the first episode was nearly unwatchable.
