Jon Plowman
- Known for
- Production
- Born
- July 4, 1953 (age 73)
- Birthplace
- Welwyn Garden City, England United Kingdom
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
Movie · Executive Producer
All My Friends Hate Me
Movie · Executive Producer
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Movie · Producer
The Devil of Christmas
Movie · Producer
La Couchette
Movie · Executive Producer
The 12 Days of Christine
Movie · Executive Producer
The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge
Movie · Executive Producer
Sardines
Movie · Executive Producer
A Quiet Night In
Movie · Executive Producer
Tom & Gerri
Movie · Executive Producer
Last Gasp
Movie · Executive Producer
The Understudy
Movie · Executive Producer
The Harrowing
Movie · Executive Producer
Inside No. 9
TV · Executive Producer · 18 eps
Way to Go
TV · Executive Producer · 6 eps
Twenty Twelve
TV · Executive Producer · 13 eps
Psychoville Halloween Special
Movie · Executive Producer
Robert's Web
TV · Producer · 6 eps
Roger & Val Have Just Got In
TV · Producer · 6 eps
Psychoville
TV · Producer · 13 eps
Beautiful People
TV · Executive Producer · 12 eps
Spinners and Losers
Movie · Executive Producer
HR
Movie · Executive Producer
The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
TV · Producer · 6 eps
That Mitchell and Webb Look
TV · Executive Producer · 24 eps
Time Trumpet
TV · Executive Producer · 6 eps
Jam and Jerusalem
TV · Executive Producer · 13 eps
The Thick of It
TV · Executive Producer · 21 eps
Love Soup
TV · Producer · 18 eps
Extras
TV · Executive Producer · 12 eps
Broken News
TV · Producer · 6 eps
The Robinsons
TV · Executive Producer · 6 eps
Doctors and Nurses
TV · Executive Producer · 6 eps
The Office: The Christmas Special
Movie · Executive Producer
Absolute Power
TV · Producer · 12 eps
The Best of French & Saunders
Movie · Producer
15 Storeys High
TV · Producer · 12 eps
Dead Ringers
TV · Producer · 40 eps
The Office
TV · Executive Producer · 12 eps
Mirrorball
Movie · Producer
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Movie · Executive Producer
The Big Impression
TV · Producer · 19 eps
People Like Us
TV · Producer · 12 eps
The League of Gentlemen
TV · Executive Producer · 18 eps
Let Them Eat Cake
TV · Producer · 6 eps
Gimme Gimme Gimme
TV · Executive Producer · 18 eps
Sir Bernard's Stately Homes
TV · Executive Producer · 6 eps
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
Movie · Executive Producer
Goodness Gracious Me
TV · Producer · 22 eps
This Morning with Richard Not Judy
TV · Producer · 18 eps
In the Red
TV · Executive Producer · 3 eps
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
Movie · Producer
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
Movie · Executive Producer
Smashie and Nicey's Top of the Pops Party
Movie · Producer
The Vicar of Dibley
TV · Executive Producer · 14 eps
Absolutely Fabulous
TV · Producer · 34 eps
Murder Most Horrid
TV · Producer · 24 eps
Bottom
TV · Executive Producer · 6 eps
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
TV · Producer · 19 eps
French & Saunders
TV · Producer, Executive Producer · 39 eps
Alas Smith and Jones
TV · Producer · 62 eps
Alfresco
TV · Researcher · 13 eps