This is apparently a reappearance of Alan Partridge, resurrected by his creator, Steve Coogan. He is still in Norwalk, where no one who has a chance to get out has remained. Partridge is still doing his mediocre radio show, with a small but seemingly faithful following. He has been taken down a notch or two--he is driving a compact with the local dealership's logo on the outside. He is middle aged and very clear on what the implications are for him. When his radio station is bought by outsiders, he realizes that he is very vulnerable to being fired, but manages to avoid the axe by encouraging the new management to fire another old timer who is even more terrible than Alan.
The fired employee takes the station with a shot gun, holding the new crew hostage. The local police are singularly incompetent, and send Alan in to hostage negotiate, which he is extraordinarily poor at. But very funny. He manages to single handedly keep the laughter rolling through one improbable scene after another to the film's bittersweet end.
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