I'm Alan Partridge

Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox television I'm Alan Partridge is a British sitcom created by Steve Coogan, Peter Baynham and Armando Iannucci. Coogan stars as Alan Partridge, a tactless and inept broadcaster. The first series, broadcast in 1997, has Partridge living in a roadside hotel after having been left by his wife and dropped by the BBC. The second, broadcast in 2002,<ref name=":6">Template:Cite news</ref> sees Partridge living in a static caravan after recovering from a mental breakdown.<ref name="Den of Geek">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref> Iannucci said the writers used the sitcom as "a kind of social X-ray of male middle-aged Middle England".<ref name=":6" />

The supporting cast includes Felicity Montagu as his faithful but timid personal assistant, Lynn Benfield; Simon Greenall as Geordie handyman Michael; and Phil Cornwell as Partridge's rival DJ Dave Clifton. Series 2 also featured Amelia Bullmore as Partridge's Ukrainian girlfriend Sonja. The show received critical acclaim and was a success amongst audiences, being nominated for three BAFTAs (winning two), two British Comedy Awards (winning both), and a Royal Television Society award. In a list drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted by industry professionals, I'm Alan Partridge was named the 38th-best British television series of all time.

Premise

Alan Partridge was created by Steve Coogan and the producer Armando Iannucci for the 1991 BBC Radio 4 comedy programme On the Hour, a spoof of British current affairs broadcasting, as the show's sports presenter.<ref name=":63">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1992, Partridge hosted a spin-off Radio 4 spoof chat show, Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge.<ref name=":72">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On the Hour transferred to television as The Day Today in 1994,<ref name=":63"/> followed by Knowing Me, Knowing You later that year.<ref name=":10">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The series ends with Partridge accidentally shooting a guest.<ref name=":72"/>

I'm Alan Partridge follows Partridge after he has been left by his wife and dropped from the BBC. In the first series, he lives in a roadside hotel, presents a graveyard slot on local Norwich radio, and desperately pitches ideas for new television shows.<ref name=":63"/> In the second series (2002),<ref name=":63"/> Partridge lives in a static caravan with his new Ukrainian girlfriend (Amelia Bullmore) after recovering from a mental breakdown.<ref name="Den of Geek" /><ref name=":02">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> By then he has moved to the late night "Norfolk Nights" slot and also hosts "Skirmish", a military-based general knowledge quiz show on digital cable channel UK Conquest, which Partridge says has "the largest audience share for a digital channel at that time of day in the Norfolk area".<ref>"Brave Alan" episode</ref> The writers found the second series difficult to make, feeling it had been too long since the first and that expectations for sitcoms had changed.<ref name=":31">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Iannucci said the writers used I'm Alan Partridge as "a kind of social X-ray of male middle-aged Middle England".<ref name=":63"/>

Reception

I'm Alan Partridge won the 1998 BAFTA awards for Comedy Performance and Comedy Programme or Series.<ref name=":15">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Digital Spy wrote: "the character of Partridge hit his comic peak" in I'm Alan Partridge.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Entertainment Weekly described the show as "bleakly hilarious".<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> The Telegraph named I'm Alan Partridge as one of the 10 best TV sitcoms of all time.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In a poll of British comedians conducted by the TV channel Gold, it was named as the second-best British sitcom of all time.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In a 2017 poll of over 100 comedians, a scene from I'm Alan Partridge in which Partridge goes to the home of an obsessive fan was voted best comedy scene.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Awards and nominations

Awards and nominations for I'm Alan Partridge

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result
1998	British Academy Television Awards	Best Comedy (Programme or Series)	Armando Iannucci, Dominic Brigstocke, Peter Baynham, Steve Coogan	Template:Won
		Best Comedy Performance	Steve Coogan	Template:Won
	British Comedy Awards	Best TV Comedy Actor	Steve Coogan	Template:Won
		Best TV Sitcom	I'm Alan Partridge	Template:Won
	Royal Television Society Awards	Best Situation Comedy or Comedy Drama	Talkback Productions	Template:Nom
2003	British Academy Television Awards	Best Comedy Performance	Steve Coogan	Template:Nom
	British Comedy Awards	Best TV Comedy	I'm Alan Partridge	Template:Nom
		Best TV Comedy Actor	Steve Coogan	Template:Won
		Best TV Comedy Actress	Felicity Montagu	Template:Nom
	Royal Television Society Awards	Best Comedy Performance	Steve Coogan	Template:Nom

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