Paid Members BomberPat Posted June 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted June 4, 2018 22 minutes ago, Onyx2 said: Motherland. Really good sitcom. Motherland was great, but from what I've read it seemed like Graham Linehan was a minority partner as far as writing was concerned, and was more on-board as director and to lend it some clout by having the name of a "proper" sitcom writer behind it. In terms of Linehan's other recent output there's, what, Count Arthur Strong? And that's dreadful. The radio show was better than the TV series without Linehan's involvement, which isn't a ringing endorsement for his talents these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Thunderplex Posted June 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted June 4, 2018 Down with this kind of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted June 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted June 4, 2018 Careful now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted June 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted June 4, 2018 This has all the makings of been terrible, but if you'd have said 10 years ago that a hip hop musical on the life of the first Secretary of the Treasury would take both Broadway and the West End by storm then you'd have been laughed out of the room. As long as it's better than Harry Hill's musical about the X Factor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted June 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted June 4, 2018 1 hour ago, Onyx2 said: Motherland. Really good sitcom.  That passed me by entirely. Some good names in the cast though, I will hunt it down at some point. @BomberPat Fucking hell, I'd forgotten about Count Arthur Strong. That character has potential, but everything about it was off. Shit supporting cast, shit writing. It had one of the most ham-fisted attempts at a heartfelt serious bit I've ever seen, with the conspiracy theorist type character. I can scarcely believe it made it to air.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted June 4, 2018 Awards Moderator Share Posted June 4, 2018 57 minutes ago, BomberPat said: t seemed like Graham Linehan was a minority partner The criteria was "being a part of." Can't argue with that. I agree though, for things that shout proudly Linehan, zero wins since Black Books 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted June 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted June 4, 2018 I have to disagree with you there @BomberPat. Count Arthur Strong was equally woeful on radio and TV. The worst waste of oxygen since anything Stephen K Amos is in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted June 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted June 4, 2018 1 hour ago, westlondonmist said: I don't really have anything against O'Hanlon, not a fan or a hater just someone I couldn't care a less about. He only worked as he was kind of baby faced and innocent looking. He now looks like what he his, an old git. I can't forgive him for My Hero. What a absolute shower of shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 2 minutes ago, PunkStep said: I can't forgive him for My Hero. Even a Pope shouldn't forgive him for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Wretch Posted June 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted June 4, 2018 Looking forward to the negative reviews and Linehan stropping off Twitter. Again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted June 4, 2018 Author Paid Members Share Posted June 4, 2018 1 hour ago, PunkStep said: I can't forgive him for My Hero. What a absolute shower of shite. If you think that was bad, his performances as the lead in Death in Paradise make Dev Alahan look like Orson Welles. @Lion_of_the_Midlands Thing is, Alexander Hamilton had a genuinely fascinating life worthy of a musical. Discounting that, Hamilton wasn't written by the man who used to be Graham Lineham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted June 4, 2018 Awards Moderator Share Posted June 4, 2018 There’s a Linehan / Lin-Manuel pun to be made somewhere but I can’t think of it. Linehan did a decent theatre adapt of The Ladykillers, but I have no interest whatsoever in a Father Ted musical. Leave it be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJM Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 6 hours ago, gmoney said: what was the last good thing Linehan was a part of? As a few people have pointed out, The IT Crowd was probably the last great thing he made/was part of.  6 hours ago, gmoney said: Series 1 of Black Books? Watched Black Books last year (picked the box set up cheap) and was really unimpressed by it. Nowhere near the levels of Father Ted or IT Crowd and I think even Count Arthur Strong was better than it. Might have to give it a watch again sometime, but I was very underwhelmed given the praise for it over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted June 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted June 4, 2018 8 minutes ago, DJM said: As a few people have pointed out, The IT Crowd was probably the last great thing he made/was part of.  So series 1 of Black Books it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 2 hours ago, Gus Mears said: If you think that was bad, his performances as the lead in Death in Paradise make Dev Alahan look like Orson Welles. Do they bloody ever. If sticking him in this musical gets him off my TV on Thursday nights, I'm all for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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