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Monday, June 26, 2006

I'm Not Alan Partridge

COMEDY! Saxondale, BBC2, 10.00pm

We didn't preview this show last week. No, indeed: our plan was to wait and watch the first episode so that we could preview it this week and, for once, sound thoroughly knowledgeable about the show we were previewing. A noble ambition, we're sure you'll agree. Except it all went a bit tits-up, because we forgot to watch it and got completely sidetracked by Big Love on Five instead. Gah! So-called professionalism, you mock us!

Never mind, we thought: we'll just eavesdrop on the tube and see what people are saying about it. A nice plan, except for the part where we didn't hear anybody talking about it. Then our thoughts turned to our faithful messageboard: surely somebody there would have had something to say about it? Nope. So, we're afraid, we turn to this episode just as blind as we would have done to the opener, with just a few clips from bbc.co.uk/comedy to go on. Still, that's better than nothing, right?

So from the site and the clips we glean that Steve Coogan is! Saxondale, a former roadie with anger-management issues, now running a pest-control business. Okay, well at least it's a sitcom with a clearly-defined "sit"; that's more than several of them manage. The awesome Ruth Jones plays his girlfriend Magz, and this week's episode features Alexander Armstrong in an alarming wig. To be perfectly honest, we'd watch it just for that, if it weren't for the sneaking suspicion that we'll get waylaid by polygyny-based drama again.

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Ruth Jones. What has she been in before? This is annoying...

By Indie Girl, at 12:01 am

Oh, she's "Linder!" Of course!

By Indie Girl, at 12:03 am

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