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Right, OK - Shoestring, Taggart, Spender, Bergerac, Morse. What does that say to you about regional detective series?

That's one way of looking at it, another way of looking at it is, people like them, let's make some more of them. A detective series based in Norwich called "Swallow". Swallow is a detective who tackles vandalism. Bit of a maverick, not afraid to break the law if he thinks it's necessary. He's not a criminal, you know, but he will, perhaps, travel 80mph on the motorway if, for example, he wants to get somewhere quickly.

Think about it. No one had heard of Oxford before Inspector Morse. This will put Norwich on the map.

Yep, fair point. OK, right - "Alan Attack!". Like The Cook Report, but with a more slapstick approach.

Pity, because they were very keen on that one. Right, now you'll like this... "Knowing M.E., Knowing You". I, Alan Partridge, talk to M.E. sufferers about the condition. You know, we intersperse it with their favourite pop songs, make it light-hearted, you know, give them a platform. You've got to keep the energy up, because... You don't like it? That's alright, that's OK...

We take fat people from the inner cities, put them in big nappies, and then get them to throw each other out of a circle that we draw with chalk on the ground.

Very cheap to make. Do it in a pub car park.

Uh, uh... "A Partridge Amongst The Pigeons".

Well, it's just a title, I mean, erm... well, no, er-er-er... Opening sequence: Me, in Trafalgar Square, feeding the pigeons, going "Oh God!"

Erm, erm... Youth Hosteling with... Chris Eubank.

Steve Coogan and Barbara Durkin in I'm Alan Partridge (1997)

Steve Coogan in I'm Alan Partridge (1997)

Steve Coogan and David Schneider in I'm Alan Partridge (1997)

Steve Coogan

Phil Cornwell

Barbara Durkin

Peter Baynham

Armando Iannucci

With his chat show and his marriage both over, Alan is now living at the 3-star Linton Travel Tavern hotel and DJ-ing for the graveyard slot on Radio Norwich. He is desperate for a second series of his chat show, so desperate that...

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A Room with an Alan

A failed television presenter, now presenting a programme on local radio desperately tries to revive his broadcasting career.

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With his chat show and his marriage both over, Alan is now living at the 3-star Linton Travel Tavern hotel and DJ-ing for the graveyard slot on Radio Norwich. He is desperate for a second series of his chat show, so desperate that he keeps having visions of himself doing lap-dances for BBC Chief Commissioning Editor Tony Hayers, who is he going to be having lunch with to discuss his future with the corporation.

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