IT’S been a good 12 months for Steve Coogan. He successfully resurrected his most famous character, Alan Partridge, on the big screen, and won a Bafta and was Oscar-nominated for co-writing the screenplay for Philomena, in which he also appeared.

He’s been a busy bee, which perhaps explains in part why it’s taken him and Rob Brydon four years to make a sequel to their hit sitcom The Trip.

Brydon’s kept himself occupied too with various projects, but we’re pleased to see the duo back together, and we can expect more thinly veiled backbiting as this time they swap Britain for Italy, where they’ve been commissioned to carry out six more of their idiosyncratic restaurant reviews while following in the footsteps of such romantic poets as Byron and Shelley.