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Jon Plowman
Producer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn January 1, 1953 (71 years)
Plowman was educated in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire and at University College, Oxford,[1] where was a member of the University College Players[2] and made friends with others who went on to establish successful careers in comedy. One, Mel Smith, directed Plowman in a production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. After Oxford, Plowman followed Smith to the Royal Court Theatre, where he met the director Lindsay Anderson. Plowman worked in theatre for a while, then joined Granada TV.
He was responsible for producing and commissioning programmes produced in-house at the BBC, of which the greatest successes include The Office and French & Saunders. Plowman became Head of Comedy in October 2005, and oversaw the BBC's in-house comedy production, but no longer commissioned programmes. In June 2007, Plowman announced he was quitting his post at the BBC after 27 years. He decided to become a freelance producer for other shows and hoped to carry on his relationship with the BBC, continuing to create programmes "for them and elsewhere."[3]
In December 2003, The Observer named him in its list of the '50 Funniest or Most Influential People in British Comedy'. On 14 March 2006, he was honoured with the 'Judges' Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Television' at the Royal Television Society awards.
Later he moved into the world of theatre. He co-produced Lucky You, the Carl Hiaasen best-seller that premiered as a theatre production at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008.
He was responsible for producing and commissioning programmes produced in-house at the BBC, of which the greatest successes include The Office and French & Saunders. Plowman became Head of Comedy in October 2005, and oversaw the BBC's in-house comedy production, but no longer commissioned programmes. In June 2007, Plowman announced he was quitting his post at the BBC after 27 years. He decided to become a freelance producer for other shows and hoped to carry on his relationship with the BBC, continuing to create programmes "for them and elsewhere."[3]
In December 2003, The Observer named him in its list of the '50 Funniest or Most Influential People in British Comedy'. On 14 March 2006, he was honoured with the 'Judges' Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Television' at the Royal Television Society awards.
Later he moved into the world of theatre. He co-produced Lucky You, the Carl Hiaasen best-seller that premiered as a theatre production at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008.
Known For
Filmography
| 2024 | Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | All My Friends Hate Me · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | |
| 2014 | W1A (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Inside No. 9 (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Way to Go (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Twenty Twelve (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Roger & Val Have Just Got In (TV Series) |
| 2009 | Taking the Flak (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Psychoville (TV Series) |
| 2008 | Beautiful People (2008) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle (TV Series) |
| 2007 | Spinners and Losers · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | Jam and Jerusalem (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | That Mitchell and Webb Look (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | Time Trumpet (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | Hyperdrive (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | 'Little Britain' Night · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | Broken News (TV Series) |
| 2005 | Love Soup (TV Series) |
| 2005 | Extras (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | The Thick of It (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | The Comic Side of 7 Days (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Absolute Power (TV Series) |
| 2003 | The Mark Steel Lectures (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Grass (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Little Britain (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | 15 Storeys High (TV Series) |
| 2002 | Dead Ringers (TV Series) |
| 2002 | Cyderdelic (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2001 | The Office (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2001 | Goodness Gracious Me: Back Where They Came from · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | Victoria Wood: With All the Trimmings · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | |
| 2000 | TV to Go (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | Bruiser (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1999 | The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything · as Executive Producer |
| 1999 | People Like Us (TV Series) |
| 1999 | Let Them Eat Cake (TV Series) |
| 1999 | Big Impression (TV Series) |
| 1999 | Sir Bernard's Stately Homes (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1999 | The League of Gentlemen (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1999 | Gimme Gimme Gimme (TV Series) |
| 1998 | Clinton: His Struggle with Dirt · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | Absolutely Fabulous: A Life · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | In The Red (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | Alexei Sayle's Merry Go Round (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | This Morning with Richard Not Judy (TV Series) |
| 1998 | Goodness Gracious Me (TV Series) |
| 1998 | Comedy Nation (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1997 | |
| 1996 | |
| 1996 | |
| 1996 | Where's Elvis This Week? (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1996 | Ruby Wax meets... (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1995 | How to Be Absolutely Fabulous · as Executive Producer |
| 1994 | The Vicar of Dibley (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1994 | The Imaginatively-Titled Punt & Dennis Show (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1994 | |
| 1993 | Shooting Stars (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1992 | Absolutely Fabulous (TV Series) |
| 1991 | Murder Most Horrid (TV Series) |
| 1991 | Bottom (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1987 | A Bit of Fry & Laurie (TV Series) |
| 1987 | French & Saunders (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1986 | Hot Metal (TV Series) |
| 1984 | Alas Smith and Jones (TV Series) |
| 1982 | Wogan (TV Series) |
| 1979 | To the Manor Born (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |