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This Time with Alan Partridge

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

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Steve Williams
Andrew posted:
Maybe not in-jokes then, but you can imagine stuff about him getting a second series and meeting with commissioning editors and the like would be especially popular if you work in that world or have an interest in that world, like we do here.


I said this earlier, but if Absolutely Fabulous can thrive on BBC1, which it has done for many years, given it was more or less devised to parody Lynne Franks and makes endless references to brands and parts of the media, Alan Partridge absolutely can.
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VMPhil
First episode wasn’t worth the 5 star reviews it got in my opinion. I laughed a few times but it was pretty underwhelming.
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Whataday Founding member
This week's Empire Podcast is an Alan Partridge special with Neil and Rob Gibbons which gives a great insight into the production of This Time. Confirms the studio was Wimbledon, a Comic Relief special has been recorded and they begin shooting a new format in May.

https://soundcloud.com/empiremagazine/alan-partridge-special-ft-neil-and-rob-gibbons
Last edited by Whataday on 4 March 2019 2:43pm
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DeMarkay
Alan had an audience tonight!
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Josh
I felt this episode was far better than last week's.
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VMPhil
Better episode than last week’s. I wouldn’t be surprised if the first episode turns out to be the weakest.
IS
Inspector Sands
A little visual gag I missed:




JA
james-2001
DeMarkay posted:
Alan had an audience tonight!

The most pointless (and silent) audience ever!
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Andrew Founding member
I loved those spoof TV shows that John was supposed to have hosted and also that apparently the train times from London to Sunderland with a 3 hour wait at Newcastle actually stack up.

With jokes about the other host being son of Head of Factual Programmes, I do still feel it should have been on BBC Two though.
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james-2001
Does this give us a clue when it was filmed? Looks like an account set up just for sending a tweet to be displayed on the screen!





Searching for other twitter accounts that were shown, several of them are locked (including @ThisTimeShow), possibly they tweeted things that would be spoilers for future editions?
Last edited by james-2001 on 4 March 2019 10:56pm
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Amber Avenger
Andrew posted:
With jokes about the other host being son of Head of Factual Programmes, I do still feel it should have been on BBC Two though.


Really don't understand this argument. So the BBC One audience can understand something as complicated as the plot of Bodyguard or Line of Duty but not a joke about nepotism in the media in Alan Partridge? Hardly something exclusive to that industry.

This Time has actually been way less in jokey than I thought it might be in terms of media stuff, its basically just a device to show the difference between On Screen and Off Screen Alan.
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davidhorman
Scotland managed to slide in a thing for River City during the end credits, pushing the edges of the credits, and almost Alan, offscreen.

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