Series Two
By series two, the viewer catches up with Alan five years after he left the Linton Travel Tavern. Despite winning a five-year contract at the end of the first series, bad blood between the BBC and Alan had forced him to leave once again. He admits that in the intervening time he'd been "clinically fed up", having a nervous breakdown which culminated in him putting on a lot of weight and driving a Vauxhall Vectra to Dundee in his bare feet whilst gorging on Toblerones.
He also threw his tax receipts off a ferry during what he called "a low point". By the start of this series, he believes himself to have "bounced back", titling his poorly selling autobiography Bouncing Back.
As well as his book, he has Radio Norwich's third-best slot (his rival from Series 1, Dave Clifton, again follows his show, but this is now a 'graveyard' midnight slot). He also hosts a "military-based game show called Skirmish" on fictional cable television channel "UK Conquest" and has released a video of car accidents entitled Crash, Bang, Wallop, What a Video!
Alan now finds himself living in a static caravan outside his partially built dream home. He is flanked by his friend Michael, who has left his job at the Travel Tavern to become a cashier at a local BP garage (this recalls Alan's odd question in the first episode of the first series to the estate agent, when he asked if there were any petrol stations near the house with minimarts - "scaled down supermarket, fits inside a petrol station").
Alan now has two women in his life, not only is he still tended to by his long-suffering and underpaid personal assistant Lynn but he has a younger Ukrainian girlfriend, Sonja (Bullmore).
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