Part David Cameron and Piers Morgan: Alan Partridge returns in time for Brexit | Television and radio

The last time Alan Partridge hosted a BBC broadcast, he was fired live for hitting his boss in the face with a turkey. Now that the world has "lined up on Alan's lines," Norfolk's most famous radio DJ is coming back from years in the wild with This Time with Alan Partridge.

Steve Coogan said he "felt good" that his character was coming back now, especially considering the Brexit: "The BBC might be tempted to say that a certain part of the audience had been deprived the right to vote … Alan could represent it. You can imagine them thinking that we might as well give this guy another piece of the cherry. "

In an act of self-satire that rivals its own W1A, the BBC has brought Partridge back to the forefront of a live magazine-style One Show. Partridge becomes the alternate presenter after the beloved host falls ill. "He did not want to be back at the BBC," said Coogan, "but when an opportunity arises, he must jump on it."

Her creation has gone from "the little conservative and hyper conservative Englander" to a more nuanced figure. "Now he looks a little more like David Cameron. He is economically conservative, but he understands that you must be socially liberal. He tries to embrace things and tries to "know" … but he is not really.

The humor went beyond the mocking of intolerant people. "It's more fun to attack people who are trying to adopt what is called correct thinking and who do not do it well." Today's waking world is a rich choice for Partridge "He tries to be in tune with the mind. You do not feel like badping a dead horse because you can adapt it to its time and its attitudes will adapt. "

Originally created by Coogan with Armando Iannucci and Patrick Marber for Radio 4's comedy On the Hour in 1991, Partridge has become one of the most popular comedy characters of all time, with broadcasts like Alan Partridge and Knowing Me, Knowing You. More recently, Coogan collaborated with screenwriters Neil and Rob Gibbons on the movie Alpha Papa and Spoof Memoirs I, Partridge and Nomad, as well as on the transition to Sky with shows such as Mid Morning Matters and Scissored Isle.

In fact, Partridge is so familiar to fans that production can essentially rest on its laurels. "You can just remove all the comedy and let Alan seriously look at the camera," said Neil Gibbons, and there is nothing left but "anticipating what he will do."

The format of the magazine allows viewers to see the events of Partridge during live shots, as well as taken to show his ego self-esteem by Lynn, his badistant who suffers for a long time. He also offers partridgic tirades on everything from hand hygiene (pushing him to hide outside the BBC toilets to make spot checks on colleagues) to hacking.

But there was a particular problem in putting it in this configuration, said Gibbons: "In the early days of Alan, he was walking a tightrope because he was waiting for professionalism. If someone fluffed a line or got the name of someone wrong or said something stupid, it was mortifying. But nowadays, these are people who are offered jobs on television. "

He compared Partridge to presenters such as Piers Morgan. "The producers of Good Morning Britain do not cut their hair thinking," I would like it to stop saying something offensive. "They say to themselves," That's why he's in the series. "Put Alan in a world where his so-called buffoonery is part of the selling points, there's nowhere he can fall.

This time with Alan Partridge starts on BBC One on February 25 at 9:30 pm