Steve Coogan appeared on The One Show tonight (June 9) and obviously there was plenty of talk about today's election result, which we're not going to go into.

But among the discussion about everything that's happened recently, Coogan dropped the news that we will see a lot more of his famous comedy character Alan Partridge on TV next year.

"Alan will be back on the BBC early next year," he said. "There'll be a lot of Alan on telly next year, if you can wait that long.

"There's been rumours [about it]," he joked, adding: "I'm trying to leak it to the press".

We think he succeeded there.

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Although the comedian remained tight-lipped on the content of the show, he said it might be similar to the magazine format of The One Show.

Coogan previously said that he would be doing something with the character at the end of this year, but admitted he didn't know when it would make it to screens or what the format would be.

He also joked that "in some ways the only person on Earth who's more Alan Partridge than Alan Partridge is Donald Trump. Even Alan Partridge would think Donald Trump is a bit much.

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"I thought Nigel Farage was the incarnation of Alan Partridge, a nightmare version of Alan Partridge who actually wields some power, but I would have never predicted the leader of the free world would be an uber-Partridge."

The One Show airs weeknights at 7pm on BBC One.

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