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Monday at 9:30pm on BBC One (February 2019)

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DeMarkay
Whataday posted:
Back to Alan, there was a clip of tonight's show on Lorraine and it seems we get to see the action as seen through the studio cameras while the various One Show style VTs are playing (with dodgy camera angles, heads cut off etc). No filmic effect - but perhaps as speculated that may be used on action which takes place outside the studio.

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Also as suspected, no audience laughter.

Is that half of the original Daybreak sofa, I wonder.


Yes! Wink
WH
Whataday Founding member
james-2001 posted:




That's great, but I'm surprised at how low key the promo has been for this show. There's a lot of people on Twitter responding with surprise that there's a new Alan Partridge series starting tonight. Perhaps the intention is not to hype it up too much.

Alan Partridge is now trending on Twitter as a result of that email.
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Spencer
Whataday posted:
That's great, but I'm surprised at how low key the promo has been for this show. There's a lot of people on Twitter responding with surprise that there's a new Alan Partridge series starting tonight. Perhaps the intention is not to hype it up too much.



I've seen the promo plenty of times over the past few weeks, both on TV and social media, and I've heard the trail on both Radio 4 and 6 Music - presumably it's on other BBC radio networks too. I thought the promotion was pretty heavy myself.
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Whataday Founding member
Spencer For Hire posted:
Whataday posted:
That's great, but I'm surprised at how low key the promo has been for this show. There's a lot of people on Twitter responding with surprise that there's a new Alan Partridge series starting tonight. Perhaps the intention is not to hype it up too much.



I've seen the promo plenty of times over the past few weeks, both on TV and social media, and I've heard the trail on both Radio 4 and 6 Music - presumably it's on other BBC radio networks too. I thought the promotion was pretty heavy myself.


But that's quite pedestrian as far as campaigns go - I thought there would be more hype or some more Partridge/Coogan media appearances. All we've really had is a vague mention of the series tagged onto the end of interviews on Coogan's Stan & Ollie press tour.

Having said that, it might very well be the right way to go about it rather than over-hype it.
LL
Larry the Loafer
I suppose given the premise of the show is he's guest presenting a programme whose main presenter is ill, popping up on chat shows to promote his gig in character would seem unnecessary if you were going to keep to the narrative and maintain the realism. And if Steve was to promote the show out of character, it would probably spoil the illusion.
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Whataday Founding member


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PFML84
Though Ian Hyland from the Mirror has already tweeted that if you've seen the advert with the 'dry mouth' dialogue you've already seen the funniest part of the episode and it mightn't go down all that well with the BBC ONE audience.
SW
Steve Williams
PFMC84 posted:
Though Ian Hyland from the Mirror has already tweeted that if you've seen the advert with the 'dry mouth' dialogue you've already seen the funniest part of the episode and it mightn't go down all that well with the BBC ONE audience.


Ian Hyland is quite, quite wrong.
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DVB Cornwall
Another in the Ricky Gervais school of comedy, you either love or not, I’m in the latter category.
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VMPhil
DVB Cornwall posted:
Another in the Ricky Gervais school of comedy, you either love or not, I’m in the latter category.

Well. The Office was good, Extras wasn't as good and the less said about Derek the better.
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Whataday Founding member




Because Twitter isn't "the BBC one audience"?
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UKnews
If you send a message to Alan's 'official BBC email address' (linked to in the email to all staff) you get this back:

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Last edited by UKnews on 25 February 2019 4:55pm

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