“Basically, terrestrial TV is a dead duck, and who watches a dead duck? Not even its mother. She just flies off depressed.”
In context
Alan: Basically, terrestrial TV is a dead duck, and who watches a dead duck? Not even its mother. She just flies off depressed. I want to show you an example now of the kind of sell through video that I make.
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The scene
Alan explains his career move away from the BBC to a hall of schoolchildren.
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Quick answers
Who says "Basically, terrestrial TV is a dead duck, and who watches..."?
Alan Partridge says it in I'm Alan Partridge.
Where is this Alan Partridge quote from?
It is from Episode 1 – The Talented Mr Alan (I'm Alan Partridge). The full script is on this site.