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Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge (2010)

Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge poster
Directed by
Ted Dowd
Genre
sitcom
Country
United Kingdom
Length
2 seasons, 12 episodes
Rated
15
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 21 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A radio DJ named Alan Partridge hosts a mid-morning show full of petty grievances and awkward interviews. It parodies the mundane reality of local talk radio.

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What happens

Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge is a British television sitcom written by Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons and Armando Iannucci, produced by Baby Cow Productions. Parodying a British digital radio show, it stars Coogan as the fictional radio DJ Alan Partridge. The first of twelve 15-minute episodes was uploaded to the Foster's Funny website on 5 November 2010, and then available on YouTube. Six 30-minute episodes titled Alan Partridge Mid Morning Matters: Special Edition, edited from the web series, began airing on Sky Atlantic in July 2012 as part of a deal between producers Baby Cow and BSkyB. A second series consisting of six episodes premiered in February 2016. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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