Susannah Fielding: ‘Alan Partridge has a slightly softer heart than Piers Morgan’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. I’m thinking, ‘C’mon Suze, I’ve got to bite the bullet, pay the 20 quid and get a new one.’” In This Time – a One-Show-style parody, relentless in both its sheer awkwardness and its genius – Fielding plays Jennie Gresham, who co-hosts the show with Steve Coogan’s lovable liability Alan Partridge. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free open image in gallery Excruciatingly convincing: Steve Coogan, Susannah Fielding and Simon Farnaby in the opening episode of the new series of ‘This Time with Alan Partridge’ Partridge co-writers, twins Neil and Rob Gibbons, admitted they didn’t see the full potential in Gresham until Fielding “knocked it out of the park” in her audition. Fielding would eventually play scores of comic characters – from Mrs Sullen in the National’s The Beaux’ Stratagem to Chloe, “the one that got away”, in the Channel 4 sitcom Pete versus Life. Gresham’s response, says Fielding, is “a little bit cleverer, as you might expect”.