Graham Linehan film reviews

Graham Linehan

Irish actor, director

Born
22 May 1968
in Dublin Leinster Ireland

Irish writer, director and occasional actor. Almost his entire professional life he spent in the Great Britain, where he contributed to several popular sitcoms, like Big Train, Black Books, Harry Enfield and Chums, Little Britain. He is creator of such series as IT Crowd, Count Arthur Strong and Father Ted. He is married to writer Helen Serafinowicz, who is sister of Peter Serafinowicz.

1995-1998	Father Ted	screenplay
	Father Ted Crilly takes over the parish on secluded Craggy Island near Ireland. The parish is far from what he had expected - he has a dimwitted young priest Father Dougal and always drunk old Father Jack to help him.

1998-2002	Big Train	screenplay
	Sketch show presenting the every day situations twisted with absurdal humour.

2000-2004	Black Books	screenplay
	Bernard Black is owner of small old-fashioned bookshop that barely breaks even, mostly thanks to Bernardâ€™s customer service skills... that he has none. He hires Manny to help around the shop, but his happy-go-lucky attitude really gets on Bernardâ€™s nerves.

2004-2004	Garth Marenghiâ€™s Darkplace	as Security Guard
	Garth Marenghi, the horror pulp books author, presents the highlight of his career - the TV series called Darkplace in which he played the main character. Together with his producer and one of the actors he recalls that groundbreaking show.

2006-2010	IT Crowd	screenplay
	Two freaks from IT department of big company one day were put in awkward situation - newly appointed woman, who knows nothing about computers is put in charge of them. But that change can actually be blessing for them.