Graham Linehan questions

[Bollock Chops]

I was looking at his page on imdb and it and a show called 'Paris', written by him and Arthur Mathews, is listed. It starred Alexei Sayle and Neil Morrissey. I vaguely remember this, but was it actually any good?

He also did the screenplay for a film called 'The Matchmaker' that came out in 1997 that starred Janeane Garofalo and Denis Leary. Anyone seen it?

[Partridge's Love Child]

I loved Paris, but it flopped terribly.  Linehan & Matthews later described it as a "classic fuck up of a first attempt".  Or something similar.

[Morrisfan82]

An odd thing happened with Paris, whereby Channel 4 really went to town on promoting it, I'm talking huge billboards (the only other sitcom I can currently think of that C4 did this for was series 3 of Father Ted, many moons later) and a lengthy trailer campaign. It came along, was pretty darn good as I (admittedly quite hazily) recall, but it died a death ratings-wise, and was hence perceived to be this huge flop. Expectations ran too high? I do not know...

[benthalo]

Linehan's always doing screenplays, or fiddling with other people's. His agency page mentions quite a few.

Paris - rotten first half to episode one which sent out all the wrong signals to me and meandered terribly, but great thereafter, albeit 'great' in a stealing-from-Black-Adder-The-Third fashion. We've raved about it on here in the past.

Late Licence repeats in 1995/96 and nothing since. I'd applaud a DVD release of that and The All New Alexei Sayle Show. Linehan & Mathews did some great work with him.

[keir]

I'd applaud a DVD release of that and The All New Alexei Sayle Show. Linehan & Mathews did some great work with him.

yeah, so much of that was SO Linehan & Mathews...  remeber the Marquis of Granby?