Alan Partridge
Alan Partridge is a fictional character of the British actor Steve Coogan. This figure represents an insensitive and often overmatched Moderator dar. Through his first radio broadcast "On the Hour" 1991 Alan Partridge was so popular that Steve Coogan him now in three television series, several specials as well as in numerous appearances on other TV series, comedy shows and festivals has embodied.
On The Hour
The character of Alan Partridge first appeared in 1991 on the radio program of the BBC: In the comedy series On The Hour, a parody of news magazines, hosted by comedian Chris Morris, Partridge was heard as incompetent sports reporter. The figure was quickly popular.
Knowing Me, Knowing You ...
In 1992, the figure has its own format: the fictional talk show Knowing Me, Knowing You ... with Alan Partridge, acting mainly by Partridge's inability to make such a show without embarrassing incidents. The Talk guests were presented in each show by the same actor in changing costumes. Radio 4 also produced a program that purported entitled Knowing Knowing Me, Knowing You, to document the work behind the scenes. In 1994, Partridge was also shown on BBC television, first again as overburdened sports reporter in the comedy series The Day Today ( basically a TV version of On The Hour), then with his own talk show.
In reality, Alan Partridge TV show Knowing Me, Knowing You was a great success, but in the fictional world she struggled with a rapidly decreasing number of audience. When the moderator in the Christmas special Knowing Me, Knowing Yule beaten a (fictitious) program director of the BBC, it is clear that it will be shot a second season of the talk show, Partridge is fired.
I'm Alan Partridge
The second TV series I'm Alan Partridge, shot in the style of a docu-soap, is about the experiences of the presenter after the end of his TV career. In the first season (1997) Alan is back in his hometown of Norwich, where he had a mission in the night splint moderated at Radio Norwich. He tries to convince the BBC to produce to him a second season of his talk show, but without success as before.
In the second season ( 2002), Partridge's situation has improved slightly. He hosts now in the day track of a local cable TV station and is the host of the game show Skirmish. However, his autobiography Bouncing Back falls far short of expectations, the rest of the first edition will be scrapped at the end of the series. Partridge has bought a house in spite of everything, he can expand, and lives in a caravan on the site. He has a Ukrainian girlfriend, Sonja. In the second season is shown through flashbacks that Partridge had to have experienced a significant weight gain after kicking out at the BBC.
The title of each episode are modeled on famous movie titles, in each of which a word has been replaced by Alan.
More shows
Other television appearances by Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge, there were 1999 and 2001 as part of Red Nose Day, an annual fundraising event for the charity Comic Relief, and in a half-hour "special" called Anglian Lives ( 2003), the pretended to illuminate the career of the game show host.
Indirectly Partridge appeared in Michael Winterbottom's ambiguous comedy A Cock and Bull Story ( 2006) to: Steve Coogan plays the role of himself and is irritated by colleagues with constant allusions to his most popular character. In fact, Coogan said to have played the incompetent Showmaster 2002 only reluctantly. Meanwhile, there are plans to bring Alan Partridge himself on the big screen: a film version is according to Internet Movie Database already in the production phase.
According to the Sunday Times on November 11, 2007 Partridge will discuss the film with Islamist terrorists have occupied the offices of the BBC. A similar project on Islamist terrorists in the UK is rumored followed by Chris Morris, who has worked with Steve Coogan in previous comedy series for Radio and TV. Direct evidence of another collaboration between Coogan and Morris does not exist, however.
Some running gags from the broadcasts of the fictional game show host have become commonplace in the English popular culture, especially Partridge's habit of his guests with excerpts from ABBA songs and the formula " Knowing me, Alan Partridge, knowing you, [name of guest ], a -ha " to be welcomed. But Alan loud calls for Dan, a short-term best friend Alan, is well known.