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Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge - The Complete Series

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790717463
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0790717468
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Running Time: 247 minutes
Sales Rank: 18383
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: April 15, 1998

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Editorial Review:

Description:
Alan Partridge is the hilariously unprofessional host of the cheesiest talk show imaginable. Self-absorbed and further handicapped with an ABBA fixation, Alan confronts an endless parade of C-list celebrities week after week with mounting frustration and antagonism. For anyone whoever lost the remote control during an inane talk show, Knowing Me Knowing You delivers the 'Scenes We'd Like to See.' This two-disc DVD set includes all 6 episodes of the series, as well as Christmas Special 'Knowing Me Knowing Yule.'

DVD Features:
Additional Scenes:Never-before-seen footage
Audio Commentary:Cast and writers' commentaries
Biographies:Cast and crew biographies
Other:Alan Aid (from Comic Relief '95)Ruralan (Alan Partridge's Country Ramble)Originalan (Untransmitted test footage 4/14/94)
Photo gallery




Amazon.com:
Ah-ha! In 1995, Alan Partridge made the transition from radio to TV with Knowing Me, Knowing You, a talk show so wholly misunderstood that one TV critic described it as 'moribund.' By way of rebuttal, just consider Alan's parade of fantastic guests, including a hypnotist who persuades Alan that he's an owl; an American pop diva with whom Alan shares a memorable Abba duet that happens to be in all the wrong keys for him; raunchy male dance-act Hot Pants; Cirque des Clowns, whose extreme violence upsets Alan; and, most exciting of all, Roger Moore (via mobile phone from a traffic jam on the Chiswick roundabout).

Steve Coogan's creation fell on hard times later, but here he's reveling in his primetime exposure with no thought of becoming 'clinically sad' or gorging on Toblerone bars. Co-writers Armando Iannucci and Patrick Marber lovingly re-create everything that's fake and contrived about the whole chat-show genre: the shameless plugging, the recalcitrant celebs, the novelty acts and, most of all, the insufferably smug host oblivious to his own tediousness. Coogan's regular guests are ably played by some faces familiar from The Day Today: Rebecca Front, Doon MacKichan, David Schneider and Patrick Marber himself. Other game guest stars are John Thomson (as a naval officer also called Alan Partridge) and Minnie Driver (as a transsexual agony aunt), not forgetting Steve Brown as disconcertingly gay music director Glen Ponder.

The high-water mark of Alan's career arrived with his Christmas special Knowing Me, Knowing Yule in which his own living room was lovingly re-created at Television Centre. Unfortunately, and despite the presence of Simply Red's Mick Hucknall, the new Chief Commissioning Editor of BBC TV, Tony Hayers, is deeply unimpressed with the show and gets punched in the face by Alan, who, it turns out, is handy with a turkey. On that bombshell, Alan's career took a downward turn.

Knowing Me, Knowing You is a two-DVD set including all six episodes and the Christmas special. There's a group commentary throughout with contributions from Armando Iannucci plus Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front, Steve Brown and Dave Schneider speaking in and out of character. Other extras include the original pilot show, Alan on Comic Relief, Alan's rural rambles, his TV trailers, plus stills and cast biographies. --Mark Walker




Rating: - Get This!
If you like satire and comedy with a bite---This is for you! The bouus episode and extras ard fun.

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Rating: - Yawn
Some chuckles, no laughs. Not a keeper. Rent or borrow, only. Of the Dumb and Dumber vein of comedy ... Read More

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Rating: - Awkward Genius
Great DVD set. Although I prefer 'I'm Alan Partridge' this is a must have for any Coogan fan. The extras ... Read More

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Rating: - Brilliant Comedy
The original Alan Partridge show is as good as the Travel Tavern series and 13 years later remains as funny ... Read More

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Rating: - Knowing Me, Smash B, Knowing You, the Reader.... A ha
Watch Alan Partridge as the chat show host you'll love to hate as his "moribund" chat show spirals further and ... Read More

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