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Jon Plowman: Making TV comedy

Veteran comedy producer Jon Plowman reveals the inner workings of a sitcom

When it comes to television sitcoms, producer Jon Plowman (OBE) says the reason audiences tune in is simple: 鈥淲e like the characters and we want to have a good time with them.鈥

Plowman鈥檚 CV reads like someone has cherry-picked their favourite comedies and placed them in one dream career. He鈥檚 produced The Office, Vicar of Dibley, Absolutely Fabulous, League of Gentleman and Little Britain, to name but a few.

鈥淎 lot of people think scripts are about jokes,鈥 he adds. 鈥淚 think they鈥檙e about characters.鈥

In this podcast Plowman takes us behind the scenes to provide an insight into how Jennifer Saunders worked on Absolutely Fabulous, as well as telling the story of how 成人论坛 Two gave The Office a second chance.

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