Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life

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Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life
Genre
In the Loop

Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life is one of two one-off

BAFTA for Steve Coogan
's performance.

Premise

Alan Partridge (Coogan) takes his viewers on a tour of his beloved home county of Norfolk. He visits various local landmarks, as well as some of his favourite places and also shows parts of his day-to-day life.

Partridge begins his program by noting that Norfolk has also been known as "East Anglia, the plump peninsula, home of The Broads — although that sounds like a refuge for fallen prostitutes — Albion's hindquarters, or quite simply, the Wales of the East."

Although the episode starts off as a local travelogue, events gradually take a darker turn as Partridge's personal life begins to intrude, as it is hinted that he is facing a potential diagnosis of a terminal illness. This prompts a period of reflection and soul-searching on Partridge's part.

Reception

The new specials were highly anticipated and Welcome to the Places of My Life was generally well received. Ben Lawrence, writing for

RadioTimes stated "Sky Atlantic delivers the best Alan Partridge of the 21st Century. Welcome to the Places of my Life is well observed, carefully constructed and very, very funny."[2] Alex Fletcher said, writing for Digital Spy's 'Tube Talk', that "Welcome to the Places of My Life is up there with the funniest work of Coogan's career. A one-hour 'documentary' following Alan acting as a tour guide around his favourite destinations (Thetford Forest) and daily stop-offs (his local newsagent), the show is rich enough and hilarious enough to make you long for a full series."[3]

John Crace of The Guardian said that "the set-up was a parody of any number of early evening TV documentaries in which a minor celebrity fills an hour of screen time by pottering around some fairly dull places, talking to fairly dull people while trying to convince everyone it's all enormously interesting. On its own, this would have made good comedy, as there were also sideswipes at Bear Grylls' and Dan Snow's annoying presentational tics of adding drama to the tediously mundane. But with Partridge it's always what you don't expect that makes him so well worth watching."[4] Jack Sharp, writing for On the Box, gave the episode 5 stars out of a possible 5 and said that it was "an essential hour of comedy for Partridge fans, packed full of very quotable Partridgisms."[5]

Information

The programme was directed by David Lambert, and written by Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons and Rob Gibbons. It was watched by an estimated 216,000 people.[6]

References

  1. ^ Lawrence, Ben (26 June 2012). "Alan Partridge, Sky Atlantic, review". London: Telegraph. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  2. ^ Glanfield, Tim (21 June 2012). "Sky Atlantic delivers the best Alan Partridge of the 21st Century". Radio Times. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  3. ^ Fletcher, Alex (21 June 2012). "Alan Partridge on Sky Atlantic preview: A Partridge Pilgrimage - TV Blog". Digital Spy. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  4. ^ John Crace (25 June 2012). "TV review: Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life; Veep; Walking and Talking | Television & radio". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  5. ^ "Alan Partridge: Welcome To The Places of My Life Review". Channelhopping.onthebox.com. 25 June 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  6. ^ Rosser, Michael (26 June 2012). "Alan Partridge makes Sky Atlantic debut with 216k". Broadcast. Retrieved 4 September 2012.

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