Editing I'm Alan Partridge (section)

==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 (news format)|current affairs]] broadcasting, as the show's [[Sports commentator|sports presenter]].<ref name=":63">{{Cite web |last=Husband |first=Stuart |date=5 August 2013 |title=Alan Partridge: the 'A-ha!' moments |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10208780/Alan-Partridge-the-A-ha-moments.html |access-date=14 September 2015 |work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref> In 1992, Partridge hosted a [[Spin-off (media)|spin-off]] Radio 4 spoof [[Talk show|chat show]], ''[[Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge (radio series)|Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge]]''.<ref name=":72">{{Cite web |title=Alan Partridge – Anglian Lives |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/partridge/life/anglian.shtml |date=2003-03-18<!--date in source: 20030318--> |work=BBC}}</ref> ''On the Hour'' transferred to television as ''[[The Day Today]]'' in 1994,<ref name=":63"/> followed by ''[[Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge (TV series)|Knowing Me, Knowing You]]'' later that year.<ref name=":10">{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=Ben |date=4 September 1994 |title=Comedy / Knowing him, knowing us, ah-haah: Alan Partridge, smarmy master of the crass interview, is bringing his chat show to television. Ben Thompson meets the gauche celeb's comic creator, Steve Coogan |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy--knowing-him-knowing-us-ahhaah-alan-partridge-smarmy-master-of-the-crass-interview-is-bringing-his-chat-show-to-television-ben-thompson-meets-the-gauche-celebs-comic-creator-steve-coogan-1446647.html |access-date=14 September 2015 |work=The Independent}}</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 [[Mobile home|static caravan]] with his new Ukrainian girlfriend ([[Amelia Bullmore]]) after recovering from a [[mental breakdown]].<ref name="Den of Geek" /><ref name=":02">{{Cite web |last=Heritage |first=Stuart |date=4 April 2014 |title=Alan Partridge: a guide for Americans, newcomers and American newcomers |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/apr/04/alan-partridge-a-guide-for-americans-newcomers-and-american-newcomers |access-date=14 September 2015 |work=The Guardian}}</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">{{Cite web |last=Wray |first=Daniel Dylan |date=9 October 2020 |title=Aha! – The Oral History of Alan Partridge |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/oral-history-of-alan-partridge/ |access-date=2020-10-09 |website=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |language=en}}</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"/>