Alan Partridge defects from BBC to Sky
Steve Coogan is to take his cringe worthy Alan Partridge character from the BBC to Sky as part of a deal signed between his TV production company Baby Cow and Sky.
It will see the fictional Norfolk DJ front two one hour specials in addition to a TV adaptation of Coogan’s online series, Mid Morning Matters.
These will see Coogan front a Norfolk travel show, Welcome to the Places of My Life, in his Partridge persona and be interviewed for a local book club.
Coogan will act as executive producer on the shows with his Baby Cow business partner Henry Normal and The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci.
Coogan said: "Alan has been off the TV for too long but he is even more excited than me about his chance to have a second bite of the cherry. Alan feels the second decade of the millennium is the right time."
The last season of Alan Partridge aired on BBC2 in 2002 but a big screen adaptation is in the works for next year.