I was in the audiance at the filming for the new series (Im Alan Partridge !)

Member Name: Dave_London

Product:	Im Alan Partridge !
Date:	23/06/02 (529 review reads)
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I was in the audience at the Episode 5 filming yesterday at the BBC and this is what I thought of it...

Having never been at the recording of a TV program before I really did not know what to expect?.

You que for a while outside the BBC, they file you through into a small cafeteria area until you get called to the studio. We were in studio one, where they film Top of the Pops and Blue Peter, we got to walk past the central circular fountain ? it was strange, very strange I have seen that whole area on TV so many times it felt so familiar.

Steve Coogan put on a splendid performance in an episode as the now living out of a caravan while his house is finished, post mental breakdown radio DJ Alan Partridge was attempting for the second year running to achieve his ambition of watching all James Bond Movies in chronological order with "5 minutes for toilet break" and "20 mins to take Lyn to lay flowers on her mothers grave", last years "Bondathon" of was cancelled due to Lyn's mother dying - crying shame!

Lyn his erstwhile PA has a Baptist ex policeman boyfriend who sees right through Alan's bullying, The Geordie chap in the previous series (Sorry I forgot his name!) is now working at the Local BP service station, Dave Clifton is doing the late spot.

The episode opens with Alan inviting his Geordie friend to the Bondathon, only to be gazumped by Tex the Yankophile offering to take the Geordie chap to a truck festival "David Soul will be there" Alan later comes out with the great line "Are you talking to any other men?? Alan and the Geordie fall out and Alan goes back to his Caravan.

"Walking in the Manner of James Bond" (!!!) around his half built house he bumps into the bodybuilding builder, not to spoil anything but it seems Alan's latent homosexuality manifests itself much in this series.

Back at the caravan Lyn reminds Ala
n that he was

going to drive here out to see her mothers grave on the first anniversary of her death, Alan gives her a couple of minutes while he plays house music and beeps his horn while she is laying the flowers down.

To cut a long and very funny story short Lyn manages to accidentally ruin the bond tapes, Alan looses it with some cereal and they end up watching "The worlds strongest man".

Oh also it looks like his new catchphrase will be "Butter my A*se!"

Altogether a great episode, i'm sure it will be a classic.

Dave

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