Jon Plowman has been a producer at the BBC since 1980, when he produced Russell Harty's chat show Harty. He moved on to executive producing at the BBC in 1986, working on sketch show A Bit Of Fry And Laurie, and became head of comedy entertainment in 1994, mainly responsible for sketch shows. He was responsible for producing and commissioning programmes produced in-house at the BBC, of which the greatest successes include The Office and French an...
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Jon Plowman has been a producer at the BBC since 1980, when he produced Russell Harty's chat show Harty. He moved on to executive producing at the BBC in 1986, working on sketch show A Bit Of Fry And Laurie, and became head of comedy entertainment in 1994, mainly responsible for sketch shows. He was responsible for producing and commissioning programmes produced in-house at the BBC, of which the greatest successes include The Office and French and Saunders. (A full list of programmes he has produced is below). He became head of comedy in October 2005, and now oversees the BBC's in-house comedy production, but no longer commissions programmes. In June 2007, Plowman announced he was quitting his post at the BBC after 27 years. He decided to become a free-lance producer for other shows and hoped to carry on his relationship with the BBC, continuing to create programs "for them and elsewhere."
He was educated in Welwyn Garden City and at University of Oxford, where he made friends with...
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