We finally have a trailer for This Time With Alan Partridge and he really needs a drink

An air date is yet to be revealed  
Natasha Sporn8 February 2019

The first trailer for Alan Partridge has landed with the fictional broadcaster back on the small-screen, desperate for a glass of water.

The short trailer, released on Friday, shows Partridge – the alter ego of Steve Coogan – back in the presenting fold in a spoof of The One Show.

Expected to air this month, his Time With Alan Partridge will explore modern day issues and affairs, including the Me Too movement, and show the fictional broadcaster “on message”.

It will co-star Susannah Fielding and Tim Key, as presenters Jennie Gersham and Simon Denton, across a six-episode run, marking Partridge’s return to TV.

Back on screen: The hapless fictional hos(BBC WorldWide 2018/Andy Seymour)
BBC

The new programme marks the first time Partridge has been seen on TV since his show Knowing Me, Knowing You was cancelled in the 1990s after ending disastrously with a guest being shot on set.

And it’s clear that the hapless host isn’t hitting it off too well with his co-host, who has seemingly never heard of Mid Morning Matters.

As the clock counts down to transmission, nervous Partridge is seen repeatedly yelling for a glass of water to get him ready for life back in broadcast.

In January, Coogan revealed that a whole episode will be dedicated to the rise of the Me Too movement which continues to sweep Hollywood.

“Great salesman”: Steve Coogan as Partridge (PA Archive/PA Images)
PA

Speaking on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, Coogan said: “That’s such a difficult topic for anyone to talk about, for anyone to say anything about, but if you’re doing a character it weirdly gives you this licence to. You can get things wrong in a big way and it’s fine because it’s him doing it.

“You’re not sanctioning or agreeing with what he’s saying, you’re saying ‘This guy gets things wrong’ so you have licence to do it. And this is the crucial thing, because you’ve got a comic character he can say stuff that you go, 'that is so off message,' but sometimes he can say stuff that’s true that I can’t say.”

He added that it “isn’t saying he is right or wrong” but it is addressing prevalent news topics with a “sprinkle of humanity on arguments that are atrocious”.

This Time With Alan Partridge is expected to air on BBC One soon.

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