Alan Partridge will return to TV from June with three new shows on Sky Atlantic.
Steve Coogan's comedy character is to appear in a re-edited six-part series of Mid Morning Matters, previously hosted online by Fosters' Funny, and two original hour-long commissions.
Alan Partridge: Welcome To The Places of My Life sees Alan tour his beloved Norfolk, visiting the places that have shaped the man he is today, while Alan Partridge on Open Books with Martin Bryce will feature Alan getting interviewed by an author (Robert Popper) about his literary works.
A second series of Mid Morning Matters will also be screened in 2013.
"Alan has been off the TV for too long but he is even more excited than me about his chance to have a second bite of the cherry," Coogan said. "Alan feels the second decade of the millennium is the right time."
Naomi Gibney, acting channel director of Sky Atlantic, added: "I am delighted that we are bringing the formidable talents of Steve Coogan to Sky customers. Joining some of the most iconic comedy names including Russell Brand, Kathy Burke, Julia Davis, Armando Iannucci and Jack Dee will firmly establish Sky Atlantic's comedy credentials and indicates the scale of our ambition.
"As we continue to actively build our slate of originated and acquired comedy, securing Steve Coogan ensures Sky Atlantic will become synonymous with the cream of comedy."
Sky Atlantic will also premiere two more projects from Coogan's Baby Cow production company - animated children's special Uncle Wormsley's Christmas voiced by Coogan, Julia Davis, Julian Barratt and John Thompson, and Steve Coogan's Stand-Up Down Under, which follows the comedian on his Australian tour.
Baby Cow CEO Henry Normal commented: "Sky Atlantic looks like being at a party everyone wants to go to. I feel really fortunate that Baby Cow can be at the beginning of this great adventure."
Alan Partridge last appeared on TV in March 2011 as part of the BBC's Comic Relief Marathon. The last full series of sitcom I'm Alan Partridge concluded in 2002.
The character released an autobiography last Christmas entitled I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan and a movie is due to begin filming this year.
