New Alan Partridge TV Series coming?

Skid

Looks like the excellent Mid Morning Matters Internet Series might be developed into a full series.

Jurassic Park!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/02/steve-coogan-new-alan-partridge-series

Alan Partridge looks set to return for his first new TV series in nearly a decade, with Steve Coogan in talks with the BBC and other broadcasters about adapting his online show.


Baby Cow, the production company co-owned by Coogan, is in talks to rework the 2010 online series Mid Morning Matters, which follows Partridge as he records his North Norfolk Digital radio show.


Mid Morning Matters, which consists of 12 episodes of between 10 and 15 minutes, launched online in November, funded by beer brand Foster's.
The show, written by Armando Iannucci, Coogan, Neil Gibbons and Rob Gibbons, has attracted more than 4 million video views on YouTube.
Discussions with the BBC began after the rights to the internet show reverted to Baby Cow. Iannucci confirmed on Twitter that the creators were also talking to other broadcasters.


A spokeswoman for the BBC said that the talks were at a "very early stage". The plan would be to bundle the online series into about six 30-minute episodes for TV. The BBC is also thought to be discussing the potential for a second series of Mid Morning Matters.


The BBC has been the home of Coogan's Partridge character since he started out on Radio 4's On The Hour. Coogan later transferred the character to TV in news spoof The Day Today, chatshow parody Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge and the first series of I'm Alan Partridge in 1997.


But apart from the odd sketch for Comic Relief, Coogan's character has not appeared in a full TV series since 2002's second run of I'm Alan Partridge on BBC2. A one-off spoof documentary about Partridge's career, Anglian Lives, was broadcast on BBC2 in 2003.

A.Partridge

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Frank Black

Smell my cheese, you mother!

Back of the net!

donalg1

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO:mad::mad::mad:

Partridge sucks!!!!

WindmillWarrior

Eat my goal!!

Amazing news, not least because i've never even heard of Mid Morning Matters.
Isn't there also an Alan Partridge movie in the making?

spiritcrusher

Yeah, give him another series ye shíts.

telekon

Brilliant news! Mid morning matters was hilarious. I thought coogan was developing an alan partridge movie though?

Doesnt matter, i'd prefer another tv series any day.

WindmillWarrior

spiritcrusher wrote: »

Yeah, give him another series ye shíts.

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calex71

Kiss my face !

amacachi

DAN!

mailforkev

Sunday. Bloody Sunday.

Skid

WindmillWarrior wrote: »

Eat my goal!!

Amazing news, not least because i've never even heard of Mid Morning Matters.

Part 1 of 12.

Kiss my Face.

the realpigiron

Hope so thought it was great the first time round.

mikom

So it's true.... Tubridy has gone to the BBC.

irishh_bob

jurasic park !


seriously though , the third series of patridge which was shown around 2002 totally blew

Skid

WindmillWarrior wrote: »

Eat my goal!!


Isn't there also an Alan Partridge movie in the making?

Sounds like the Movie is still going ahead, as well as the series

http://www.comedy.co.uk/news/story/00000550/alan_partridge_mid_morning_matters_tv/

Plans are also underway for production of an Alan Partridge feature film. Coogan confirmed in April that the movie, which will be set in Norwich, will be filmed in 2012. He said: "We're writing it right now and going to shoot it next year. I don't know who will direct it, but Pete Baynham and Armando Iannucci are writing it with me. We've already started it."

And while I'm at it ...

Coogan is also currently writing a spoof Alan Partridge memoir book with Iannucci, plus Rob and Neil Gibbons. Titled 'I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan', the book will look at the fictional resident's life, including his less than stellar career as a DJ at Radio Norwich and his home life at the Linton Travel Tavern. Publishers Centuary say the book, which will be published in October to coincide with the TV broadcast "promises to be everything that Alan Partridge fans have been waiting for, offering Alan's utterly hilarious outlook on his life and career so far."

Butter my Arse!

Phoenix Park

Yeah well at least i haven't got a brother in prison

mikom

Ooooooooo sex...

cashback

Cashback!

Duckworth_Luas

Ram-a-dam-a-dingdong!

bonerm

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Ram-a-dam-a-dingdong!

Wrong show.

"Jacka-nacka-noory"

recyclebin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3YUlcyPXLo

ronnie3585

No, I do not know what watersports are.

ziggy23

Lynn these are sex-people!!!!:D

Frank Spencer

Coogan is also currently writing a spoof Alan Partridge memoir book with Iannucci, plus Rob and Neil Gibbons. Titled 'I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan', the book will look at the fictional resident's life, including his less than stellar career as a DJ at Radio Norwich and his home life at the Linton Travel Tavern. Publishers Centuary say the book, which will be published in October to coincide with the TV broadcast "promises to be everything that Alan Partridge fans have been waiting for, offering Alan's utterly hilarious outlook on his life and career so far."

Right, I'll tell you an anecdote. In 1974 I was catching the London train from Crewe station. It was very crowded; I found myself in a last-minute rush for the one remaining seat beside a tall, good-looking man with collar-length hair, it was the seventies; buckaroo! I looked up and saw it was none other than Peter Purves, it was the height of his Blue Peter career. He said, "You jammy bastard" and quick as a flash, I replied, "Don't be blue, Peter!" Needless to say, I had the last laugh, now **** off!

bonerm

Frank Spencer wrote: »

Right, I'll tell you an anecdote. In 1974 I was catching the London train from Crewe station. It was very crowded; I found myself in a last-minute rush for the one remaining seat beside a tall, good-looking man with collar-length hair, it was the seventies; buckaroo! I looked up and saw it was none other than Peter Purves, it was the height of his Blue Peter career. He said, "You jammy bastard" and quick as a flash, I replied, "Don't be blue, Peter!" Needless to say, I had the last laugh, now **** off!

Say what you like but I thought it was a much better read than Kate Fitzgerald's : "Needles to say , I took drugs."

Duckworth_Luas

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Ram-a-dam-a-dingdong!

bonerm wrote: »

Wrong show.

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