ONE of Scotland's top comedy writers, Armando Iannucci, is to bring one of television's favourite comedy characters to the big screen.
The Glaswegian satirist, who penned hit TV shows The Thick of It and In The Loop, is now to write and produce the first film featuring the hapless radio presenter Alan Partridge.
The news comes a day after it was revealed American broadcaster HBO had agreed to a second series of Iannucci's US sitcom, Veep.
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