Television
Along with Henry Normal and Steve Coogan, Graham co-wrote the six part comedy horror homage Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible (BBC2 2001), which starred Coogan in seven different roles. Graham himself appeared in four supporting roles. Graham then created and wrote all 53 episodes of Ideal (BBC3 & BBC2 2005-2011) starring Johnny Vegas as Manchester cannabis dealer Moz. Graham also appeared in the show as the promiscuous and bitchy gay man Brian, as well as an uncredited role as Moz’s frightening, masked neighbour Fist. He co-wrote four episodes of the sit-com Hebburn (BBC2 2012) with stand-up comedian and series creator Jason Cook as well as script editing the first two episodes and appearing in one episode as newspaper photographer David Cowgill.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“... there is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)
“In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion—or a new form of Christianity—based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.”
—New Yorker (April 23, 1990)