Alan Partridge: Every TV Show And Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

10. Open Books With Martin Bryce

After not really appearing on our screens for most of the 2000s, suddenly the 2010s began with a bonanza of Partridge content. It seems that the new pair of writer-directors Neil and Rob Gibbons had helped to reinvigorate the character and star/co-creator Steve Coogan's interest in him.

Inevitably, some of this new material was going to be better than others and, of the various one-off specials made for Sky Atlantic, this appearance on "Norfolk's foremost forum for lovers of literature" is probably the weakest.

Open Books largely exists in reality, just as it does in universe, as an excuse to plug Alan's first autobiography (I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan) and, as such, quite a bit of it just includes readings from it. Fortunately, the book (which in reality was also penned by the Gibbons brothers and Coogan) does indeed have Patridge's inimitable voice and is genuinely funny, but it's still a little like watching an extended advert.

Partridge has always had a, shall we say, unique way with words, so there are some good turns of phrase in this literary special (enjoy him highlighting how his skill with language meant that he changed his radio station's marketing from "the best of our output" to "the cream of our discharge"), but this really feels more like something that could be a segment in another show rather than a whole special of its own.