Graham Linehan
- 56 years old
- Irish
- Writer and director
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Essentially Mumsnet: the sitcom, an utterly hysterical and bracingly honest look at the messy business of motherhood. Diane ("Cunk") Morgan, Lucy Punch and Anna Maxwell Martin are by turns chaotic, uber-competitive and Not Coping Very Well ("I really want the children to be brought up like I was - by my mother") in this delicious one-off from the combined writing talents of Graham and Helen Linehan, Sharon Horgan and Holly Walsh. Fingers crossed for a series.
Ali Catterall, The Guardian, 6th September 2016King & queen of comedy: Sharon Horgan & Graham Linehan
If they were musicians, they'd be forming a London Irish supergroup. Sharon Horgan is co-creator and star of the savvy, groundbreaking comedies Pulling and Catastrophe. Graham Linehan is the grandmaster of surreal farce, most of all in Father Ted and The IT Crowd. Together they have merged their talents in Motherland, a new comedy pilot directed by Linehan about the horrors of daytime parenting.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 6th September 2016TV preview: Motherland, BBC2
How kind of the BBC to save the sitcom pilot with the most potential until last.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 5th September 2016Why studio laughter has no place in modern sitcoms
From Friends to Father Ted, some of the greatest sitcoms of all time have had laughter included on the soundtrack. But audiences have grown more sophisticated - and TV needs to follow their lead.
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 29th June 201610 people you almost didn't recognise in The IT Crowd
Happy 10th birthday, IT Crowd! Do you remember these actors appearing in Graham Linehan's geeky sitcom?
Anglonerd, 3rd February 2016Graham Linehan on how IT Crowd found its giggles
On its ten-year anniversary, Graham Linehan and the cast discuss the impact of The IT Crowd (including the controversial American version).
Eamonn Forde, The Big Issue, 1st February 2016Peep Show: sitcom for a rootless generation
When Peep Show first arrived on our screens in 2003, it put off some who thought it too 'zeitgeisty' - too Channel 4. First developed as a kind of live-action Beavis and Butt-Head, where two graduates would trade sarky observations about TV shows, its inner monologues and POV perspective struck many as a gimmick cooked up by TV execs. But, as Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan later said, he hated Peep Show 'right up until the moment I actually watched it'.
Tom Slater, Spiked, 16th December 2015The Cloud gets full series on Channel 4
Channel 4 has ordered a full series of new sitcom The Cloud, by Adam Buxton and Graham Linehan.
British Comedy Guide, 3rd November 2015Helen & Graham Linehan campaign for abortion in Ireland
Father Ted writer and wife describe termination of foetus that had no chance of survival - an act that could have led to prison had it taken place in Ireland.
Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian, 19th October 2015Linehan responds to criticism from footie journalist
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan didn't take kindly to criticism of the series from Irish football journalist Miguel Delaney.
The Independent (Ireland), 20th April 2015