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

The last time that we saw Partridge before the current series was in this 2016 one-off special for Sky Atlantic, a follow-up to Welcome To The Places Of My Life in which Mid Morning Matters-era Partridge must go on another very personal journey to discover a little more about both himself and our divided post-Brexit nation.

After calling a teenage guest to his radio show "a bloody chav" and therefore being upbraided by North Norfolk Digital producers and dropped by sponsors, Alan sets off exploring the divide between the haves and have nots on "a journey of redemption to the wrong side of the tracks".

Here, Alan gets in touch with the common man by working the checkout in a Tesco Extra ("it really is like an enormous cathedral where people come to worship shampoo and grapes") and ineptly challenging the boss of a payday loan company (who turns out to be a fan of the "lunchtime lunatics" segment of Alan's radio show).

It's a similar format to Welcome To The Places... and does a similarly good job of pastiching self-important "personal journey" documentary format. But Scissored Isle's attempt by Alan to reinvent himself as a crusading journalist man of the people, despite remaining haplessly out of touch, has an extra bite in an era in which the hyper-privileged likes of Nigel Farage and Piers Morgan get prime broadcasting slots for their own distinctly Patridge-esque attempts at the same.