Graham Linehan’s much-loved TV series The IT Crowd has had a couple of attempts to crack the American market thus far. Thus far without success, too. However, Linehan himself is now set to oversee a third attempt to take the show to America, with NBC ordering a pilot episode for a US remake of The … >
Motherland is the new upcoming comedy series from Graham Linehan and Sharon Horgan, that the BBC commissioned following a successful pilot last year. It stars Anna Maxwell Martin, Diane Morgan, Paul Ready, Lucy Punch and Philippa Dunne. Linehan and Horgan penned the scripts along with Helen Linehan and Holly Walsh. The show is described as … >
Sad news here. The much-loved sitcom Count Arthur Strong – from Steve Delaney and Graham Linehan – has come to an end. The BBC confirmed the news to the Radio Times, noting that there are “no current plans for a further series” at the corporation.
Before becoming known to a wider audience on The IT Crowd, Richard Ayoade and Matt Berry made their first television appearances in the brilliant Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, a pastiche of low-budget ‘80s horror. A second season of Darkplace was discussed but sadly never commissioned, following low viewing figures and concern from Channel 4 bosses as … >
Contemporary British comedy scribes find themselves preceded by a long-standing tradition of great British comedy screen-writers. With a very identifiable sarcastic undertone and dry connotation, British comedy has its own unique identity, not just in the English speaking world, but further afield. We take a look at 5 great British screen-writers… Ford Kiernan and … >
BBC Four has announced the commission of The Walshes, a new comedy co-written by Graham Linehan (The IT Crowd, Father Ted and Count Arthur Strong) and the five-strong comedy troupe Diet of Worms.