Graham Linehan
- 56 years old
- Irish
- Writer and director
Press clippings Page 25
Graham Linehan: 'download pirates are fans'
Comedy writer Graham Linehan has defended people who download music and films as fans, rather than pirates.
Such Small Portions, 30th May 2012Graham Linehan: Twitter has made me
The IT Crowd and Father Ted writer talks about social networks, internet distractions and why so-called pirates are really fans.
Charles Arthur, The Guardian, 27th May 2012Count Arthur Strong gets a BBC Two sitcom series
BBC Two has ordered a sitcom starring Count Arthur Strong, the popular Radio 4 character created by Steve Delaney. The IT Crowd's Graham Linehan is co-writing it.
British Comedy Guide, 19th May 2012A welcome return for the panel show hosted by Charlie Brooker that looks for the worst in everything and spins it into comedy gold. For example - your ideas, please, for the most appalling concept album? I'll leave you to insert your own ideas there and introduce the panellists: reliable Lee Mack; rising Scottish comic Susan Calman (a News Quiz regular); and the "who he?", Daniel Maier (answer: a writer on Harry Hill's TV Burp, so no slouch when it comes to gags).
You'll laugh your socks off - and future episodes are also worth catching, with guests including "the Legend" Barry Cryer, Graham Linehan (Father Ted) and Isy Suttie, doleful Dobby from Peep Show.
Ron Hewitt, Radio Times, 16th May 2012The Ladykillers announces UK tour
Graham Linehan's stage adaptation of The Ladykillers is to tour the UK and Ireland from this September.
Alistair Smith, The Stage, 19th March 2012Graham Linehan's 'Ladykillers' opens to rave reviews
First there was One Man, Two Guv'nors. Then there was the National Theatre's The Comedy Of Errors. And now, after garnering rave reviews on its opening night, The Ladykillers has joined the ranks of critically acclaimed new comedies on the West End stage.
Andrea Mann, The Huffington Post, 8th December 2011Graham Linehan: I'm not a very subtle comedy writer
Graham Linehan, the writing genius who brought us brash Bafta-winning sitcoms Father Ted, Black Books and ]The IT Crowd], speaks to Metro about his new project, The Ladykillers.
Sharon Lougher, Metro, 6th December 2011Graham Linehan: A time to kill
Why is one of the kings of TV sitcom writing dipping his feet into commercial theatre with The Ladykillers? A combination of middle age, The 39 Steps and Alec Guinness' comic timing, says Graham Linehan...
Nick Smurthwaite, The Stage, 11th November 2011'Black Books': Tube talk gold
Two weeks back, Tube Talk Gold fondly remembered Channel 4's Father Ted - the first big television hit for writer Graham Linehan. But Linehan's contribution to great British comedy didn't end there - in 2000, he teamed with stand-up comic Dylan Moran to unleash another brilliant comic creation...
Morgan Jeffrey, Digital Spy, 5th November 2011The Ladykillers - reborn for the stage
Now more than 50 years old, Ealing comedy The Ladykillers is one of Britain's best-loved films. So how will Graham Linehan, writer of The IT Crowd and Father Ted, rework it for the theatre?
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 30th October 2011