This Time with Alan Partridge (2019)

The evening magazine show gets the treatment it has always deserved: consumer affairs, current affairs, viewer interaction, a highbrow interview and a great deal of lightweight froth, all on one sofa. Alan Partridge is the stand-in co-host who wants the job permanently, and the comedy lives in the tiny on-air power struggles with Susannah Fielding's Jennie Gresham. It ran for two series on BBC One from 2019, and it is the most precise thing the Partridge team has done about live broadcasting. Watch it for the links between items, where a single clumsy segue tells you everything about how these programmes are stitched together.