Glenn Ponder
| Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge | |
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Knowing Me Knowing You titlescreen
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| Genre |
Comedy (spoof chat show) |
| Created by |
Steve Coogan Armando Iannucci Patrick Marber |
| Starring | Steve Coogan Steve Brown Rebecca Front Patrick Marber David Schneider Doon Mackichan |
| Theme music composer | ABBA |
| Opening theme | "Knowing Me, Knowing You" by the Steve Brown Band |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 7 including one Christmas special (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Peter Fincham |
| Producer(s) | Armando Iannucci |
| Running time | 28-32 min 46 min (Christmas Special) |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC2 |
| Picture format | PAL (576i) 4:3 |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 16 September – 21 October 1994 (Christmas Special shown on 29 December 1995) |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge (Radio series) |
| Followed by | I'm Alan Partridge |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge (also known as Knowing Me Knowing You) is a BBC Television series of six episodes (beginning 16 September 1994), and a Christmas special Knowing Me Knowing Yule on 29 December 1995. It is named after the song "Knowing Me, Knowing You" by ABBA (the main character's favourite band), which was used as the show's title music. Steve Coogan plays the incompetent but self-satisfied Norwich-based talk show host Alan Partridge. Alan was a spin-off character from the spoof radio show On the Hour (which later transferred to TV as The Day Today). Knowing Me Knowing You was written by Coogan, Armando Iannucci (who produced the radio version) and Patrick Marber (who also starred), with contributions from the regular supporting cast of Doon Mackichan, Rebecca Front and David Schneider, who played Alan's weekly guests. Steve Brown provided the show's music and arrangements, and also appeared as Glenn Ponder, the man in charge of the house band (the name of which changed, without explanation, every episode).
Alan went on to appear in two series of the sitcom I'm Alan Partridge, following his life after both his marriage and TV career come to an end. It was generally well received by fans and critics, and was nominated for a BAFTA and a British Comedy Award.
Knowing Me Knowing You is a parody of a chat show. It featured a live audience whose laughter meant that viewers could not mistake the show for a real chat show. Some of the guests parodied real life appearances on chat shows. For example, the medical fashion parade by Yvonne Boyd is a reference to Vivienne Westwood's appearance on Wogan.
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