Graeme Thomson
- Production designer
Press clippings
Review: Jimeoin, Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
A night of genial observational humour from the Northern Irish comic.
Graeme Thomson, The Arts Desk, 22nd April 2013Jack Dee, Edinburgh Playhouse
Comedy's Mr Misery returns to the stage - but has familiarity bred contentment?
Graeme Thomson, The Arts Desk, 30th October 2012Review: Cuckoo, BBC Three
Cuckoo is broad, amiable, undemanding fare, lifted by some pleasing performances and a few good gags.
Graeme Thomson, The Arts Desk, 26th September 2012The Thick of It, Series four, BBC Two
New series of Armando Iannucci's political satire sets its sights on the coalition.
Graeme Thomson, The Arts Desk, 9th September 2012Episodes, series 2, BBC Two
Together, they've proved they can make us laugh; now - can they make us care?
Graeme Thomson, The Arts Desk, 12th May 2012Campus, Channel 4
Let us begin with the nots. Fashionably weird is not enough. Edgy, whatever that means, is not enough. The repeated use of the word "vagina" is not enough and semi-improvised ensemble acting is not, in itself, quite enough. These were just some of the many not-thoughts which ran through my mind during the opening episode of the much touted Campus. So what did picky me want? I wanted funny.
Graeme Thomson, The Arts Desk, 6th April 2011Episodes, BBC Two
Episodes may prove to be the zenith of television's obsession with making television about making television. It was certainly a handy primer for anyone who fell asleep around 2000 (perhaps during My Hero; you are forgiven) and missed all the dominant strands of TV comedy emerging over the next decade. We hadn't simply been here before; Episodes was incubated in the post-ironic, multilayered comedic landscape in which we all now live. The success of the US version of The Office was referenced within the first five minutes. I'm surprised it took so long.
Graeme Thomson, The Arts Desk, 11th January 2011Reunited, BBC One, Review
Was it funny? Kind of. There were some good lines ("Camomile?" "Nurofen...") and some easy, unforced comedy that seemed to arise naturally; then again there was a woeful scene with a car salesman that made Lesbian Vampire Killers seem sophisticated.
Graeme Thomson, The Arts Desk, 1st July 2010