I wonder if Richard Madeley will be suing Alan Partridge. Brilliant show Steve Coogan. Man's a National Treasure.

I was watching a clip of Richard Madeley on Good Morning Britain the other day. There's something appealingly naive about him and he's so much better than the self-important and bullying Piers "I used to edit the Daily Mirror; did you know that I used to edit the Daily Mirror?; you may not know this, but I used to edit the Daily Mirror, etc." Morgan. For once the interviewees and other presenters got a word in edgewise.

Jo wrote:
I was watching a clip of Richard Madeley on Good Morning Britain the other day. There's something appealingly naive about him and he's so much better than the self-important and bullying Piers "I used to edit the Daily Mirror; did you know that I used to edit the Daily Mirror?; you may not know this, but I used to edit the Daily Mirror, etc." Morgan. For once the interviewees and other presenters got a word in edgewise.

He did fake news before it became the norm.

For those of us who have spent hours doing live TV, the strange moments when you "go to video" are magnificently captured, even down to the camera angles slipping (to sofa or carpet) as operators straighten up and relax - and the sound never goes off (too much effort) so some marvellous indiscretions get captured for posterity. That, for me, was the really wonderful ingredient. If only you (the viewer) knew...