Jon Plowman

Known for ProductionBorn 1953-07-04 (age 72)Welwyn Garden City, England United Kingdom

Plowman was educated in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire and at University College, Oxford, where was a member of the University College Players 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." 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out

Sardines

Love Soup

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life

Spinners and Losers

Inside No. 9

The Thick of It

15 Storeys High

People Like Us

Mirrorball

The Office

Extras

Bottom

A Bit of Fry & Laurie

That Mitchell and Webb Look

Broken News

The League of Gentlemen

Absolute Power

Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule

Roger & Val Have Just Got In

Time Trumpet

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous

Absolutely Fabulous

Twenty Twelve

French & Saunders

Let Them Eat Cake

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

The Vicar of Dibley

Jam and Jerusalem

Alas Smith and Jones

Psychoville

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

This Morning with Richard Not Judy

Smashie and Nicey's Top of the Pops Party

Fry and Laurie Reunited

Gimme Gimme Gimme

Beautiful People

Murder Most Horrid

Goodness Gracious Me

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

The Big Impression

Alfresco

Absolution

The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown

All My Friends Hate Me

In the Red

The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle