Graham Duff
- English
- Actor, writer, producer and script editor
Press clippings
Johnny Vegas to star in Ideal stage show
A 20th anniversary theatre version of BBC sitcom Ideal is to launch in Salford in September 2025, with Johnny Vegas reprising his role as Moz.
British Comedy Guide, 14th November 2024Count Arthur Strong: The Sound Of Mucus review
This show, directed by Graham Duff, plays to all the Count's strengths, as the master of mishap, malt whisky and malapropism makes a right hash of trying to recreate the Sound of Music with a distinctly limited budget.
Tim Pilcher & Sue Bradley, The Latest, 3rd April 2017Count Arthur Strong: The Sound of Mucus Tour - review
As Count Arthur continues his progress from obscurity to national treasure, his extremely loyal fan base will afford him considerable uncritical leeway. The difficult part is to discern which parts of the supporting performance structure help to better define the Count's absurd persona, and which are irrelevant, or even distracting and detracting.
Jim Gillespie, The Reviews Hub, 6th March 2017Ideal axed by BBC Three
Writer Graham Duff has confirmed that BBC Three has declined to commission an 8th series of cult sitcom Ideal.
British Comedy Guide, 3rd August 2011Ideal: The Red Mist
Okay, you might want to stand back, because I am about to stick my neck out. I am going to do it by saying this; I believe Ideal is the most ethnically diverse programme on British TV. Our huge cast of characters encompasses Black, Asian, Caucasian, Mixed-Race, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, American, Greek, Russian, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual and blind. We even have a recovering necrophiliac.
Graham Duff, BBC Comedy, 30th June 2011Ideal: What's inside the red bag?
In tonight's episode of Ideal, there's a scene where the pregnant Yasuko (Haruka Kuroda) is sitting alone in Moz's living room. She glances up, only to see a woman in a long, flowing, black latex dress standing upside down on the ceiling.
Graham Duff, BBC Comedy, 23rd June 2011Ideal: Music behind the magic
Tonight's episode of Ideal, aside from hopefully being funny and moving and quite scary, will also be mightily tuneful. The soundtrack to this particular episode features contributions from, amongst others, Broadcast, DJ Kudos, The Frequency, Slipstream, Warpaint, Barry Adamson, Clinic, Misha Begley, Venus Ray and Coil.
Graham Duff, BBC Comedy, 16th June 2011Happy birthday Ideal!
Tonight will see Ideal reach it's 50th episode. An uncommon achievement for any programme. Especially a British comedy series. Whilst U.S. comedies frequently rack up hundreds of installments, it's very rare indeed for a UK production to pass the 12 episode mark. Many of course, don't even make it that far.
Graham Duff, BBC Comedy, 9th June 2011An Ideal who's who
To celebrate Ideal's 50th episode, series creator Graham Duff lists his 50 favourite characters.
Graham Duff, The Guardian, 4th June 2011Ideal: Not just about drugs
If you were to listen to received wisdom, Ideal is simply "a show about drugs". In reality, of course, Ideal is no more a show about drugs than Only Fools And Horses was a show about stolen goods.
Graham Duff, BBC Comedy, 2nd June 2011