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Graham Linehan

March 2024

  • The ACTU secretary, Sally McManus

    A trade union for free speech? Battle lines drawn over groups that claim representative status

    The Free Speech Union says its members can claim fees as a tax deduction, but ACTU argues unregistered unions cannot provide effective representation

February 2024

  • All set to write an episode of Only Fools and Horses … participants at the TV comedy workshop.

    ‘Why would you not want to be woke?’ Inside the TV comedy workshops infuriating the right-wing press

    They’ve been called ‘a disaster for the arts’ and lambasted for ‘pursuing a heavily woke agenda’. So what actually happens at a comedy workshop? Our writer joins 30 working-class standups determined to break into TV

November 2023

  • Graham Linehan.

    Tough Crowd by Graham Linehan review – all joking aside

    How a self-defeating obsession derailed the career of one of Britain’s most successful comedy writers

August 2023

  • Security on stage as Graham Spiers interviews the MP Joanna Cherry at the New Town theatre, Edinburgh.

    ‘It’s a zeitgeist-capturer’: climate crisis and trans rights are talk of Edinburgh festival

  • Graham Linehan performing outside the Scottish parliament.

    Graham Linehan show staged outside Scottish parliament after second venue cancels

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    Graham Linehan mulls legal action against Edinburgh arts venue

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    Edinburgh arts venue axes Graham Linehan event after complaints

May 2023

  • Andrew Doyle, co-founder of Comedy Unleashed.

    ‘Our red line is: are they funny?’: free speech comedy clubs and the battle over onstage offence

    Graham Linehan and Dapper Laughs walk into a club ... It sounds like the setup to a bad joke, yet platforming comics who may cause offence is a winning formula. But can a night run by a GB News host claim to be anti-establishment?

June 2020

  • Graham Linehan

    Twitter closes Graham Linehan account after trans comment

    Account of Father Ted creator permanently suspended over ‘hateful conduct rules breach’

January 2019

  • More than 4,000 people signed a petition to exclude Graham Linehan from the programme.

    RTÉ picketed in row over Graham Linehan transgender comments

    Protesters claim broadcaster should have included more trans people in discussion

October 2018

  • Graham Linehan

    Graham Linehan given police warning after complaint by transgender activist

    West Yorkshire force tell Father Ted co-writer not to contact Stephanie Hayden after row on Twitter

January 2018

  • David Baddiel

    'Fame proved toxic for the relationship': when comedy double acts split

    David Baddiel, Andy Zaltzman, Richard Herring and other comics on fame, failure and friendship

December 2017

  • The IT. Crowd Roy and Moss
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    Graham Linehan confirms The IT Crowd is set for US remake

    Writer is on board for NBC’s ‘reimagining’ of the British comedy, which will be the channel’s third attempt to deliver the show to an American audience

November 2017

  • Anna Maxwell Martin, Paul Ready and Diane Morgan in Motherland.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Motherland, The A Word, Detectorists and more

  • Motherland

    The other side
    Motherland: a vision of child rearing that is panic-inducingly scary

October 2017

  • Diane Morgan

    Diane Morgan: ‘I want to play weirdos’

    From Philomena Cunk to her anti-heroine in new comedy Motherland, the Bolton actor never plays it straight. Here, she talks children (spongers), sex scenes (ugh) and failure (works out in the end)

June 2017

  • Jo Donnelly, Abigail Mc Gibbon, Cheryl Fergison and Maria Connolly in The Ladykillers at the Lyric, Belfast.

    The Ladykillers review – all-female crooks hijack Ealing caper

    Casting women as the criminal gang heightens the artifice and adds a poignant twist to Graham Linehan’s adaptation of the classic film comedy

May 2017

  • Chaos … (from left) Dave Plimmer, Bronagh Gallagher, Andy Linden, Chris Ryman, Steve Delaney as Count Arthur Strong (seated), Rory Kinnear and Zahra Ahmadi.

    TV review
    Count Arthur Strong review – Delaney's dummies dish up a glorious shambles

    Steve Delaney’s hapless comedian is back for a third series, and its gleeful mix of visual gags and absurdist dialogue puts to bed the idea that he is ill suited to TV

February 2017

  • 2000AD-PROG-1

    40 years of 2000AD: looking back on the future of comic books

    The publisher of Judge Dredd and Halo Jones has had its own adventures over four decades, as founder Pat Mills and fans Jonathan Ross and Graham Linehan recall

September 2016

  • Fay Ripley, John Thomson, Hermione Norris, Robert Bathurst and James Nesbitt in Cold Feet

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Cold Feet; Poldark; Motherland; We the Jury; The Last Leg: Live from Rio

    The return of Cold Feet was the best kind of nostalgia, but Poldark’s moody smouldering failed to raise the pulse
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