Overview

• How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) will premiere on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in October, according to The Independent.
• Coogan’s appearance marks his first televised turn as Alan Partridge since the 2021 second series of This Time with Alan Partridge.
• The series follows the Norfolk presenter returning to the UK to reconnect with his roots after a 12-month stint working in Saudi Arabia.
• In an interview reported by The Independent from The Guardian, Coogan described Alan as “lockstep with whatever will give him the least grief,” calling that trait “quite Starmer-esque.”
• Coogan said BBC lawyers objected to a gag about a supposed fight with Noel Edmonds and reflected on his own self-awareness, including how his northern accent shifts by audience, while sharing a wry reminder from his daughter about being past a midlife crisis.