{"id":220429,"date":"2025-10-17T18:59:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/220429\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:59:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:59:18","slug":"how-are-you-its-alan-partridge-bbc-one-iplayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/220429\/","title":{"rendered":"How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge), BBC One\/iPlayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last month when David Mitchell and Robert Webb returned to Channel 4 with a new series, there was a lot of talk about the return of sketch comedy after a long absence. Then a few weeks later Alan Partridge returned to BBC for this new series. i didn’t really notice at the time but How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) is really a sketch show too. And a brilliant one.<\/p>\n

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In this current run Steve Coogan’s Partridge is exploring mental health. Though of course that’s only really a peg on which to hang Partridge and his comic foibles. At first I thought the series was a bit scattershot, but if you look at it as a series of sketches it suddenly all makes sense.<\/p>\n

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And like even the best sketch shows it’s been hit and miss. But with a performer as inspired as Coogan the hit rate is high. Partridge fits him like a leather drivning glove. Unforgettable moments so far include Partridge on a jet pack. Or Partridge trying to connect with his childhood in the most literal way, wearing shorts and doing wheelies around a cul-de-sac.<\/p>\n

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This week’s episode has some delicious moments too. It is a sign of skilful, incisive writing that Coogan and Rob and Neil Gibbons came up with a sidebar plot about the DJ doing lucrative Saudi Arabian work long before the Riyadh Comedy Festival hit the headlines. This week we see Partridge doing his Jeddah traffic reports from a business park just outside Norwich city centre. (talking of radio DJs, has anyone noticed the similarities between Partridge’s nitpicking pedantry and comedian John Rpbins on his R5\/podcast with Elis James? They even both have birds as surnames)<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere he goes walkabout and talks about the delights of human company (“I’m happy to hug a tree once a year”) although these scenes \u2013 manly conversations in the pub, eating a biscuit while his girlfriend Katrina (Katherine Kelly) gossips with her friends \u2013 don’t suggest he is actually enjoying the social whirl that much. Needless to say Katherine is having an affair, while Alan seems to have a more fulfilling relationship with the female AI robot he road tests.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Comic awkwardness is the ever-present theme here. Whether trying to order a coffee using technology, chatting to young people about accommodation issues or conducting an interview with a crane driver via walkie talkie. Or, in another episode highlight, working on a train and quickly becoming a jobsworth. Partridge is the ultimate fish out of water however much he tries to fit in.<\/p>\n

How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge), Fridays, BBC One, 9.30pm and on iPlayer.<\/p>\n

Picture: BBC\/Baby Cow<\/p>\n

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