Geoff Posner

Geoffrey Posner (born 1949) is a British television producer and director. [cite web
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accessdate =2007-12-18] Posner has directed and produced some of Britain's most successful comedy shows since the early 1980s.

Starting off as a director on the satirical show "Not The Nine O'clock News", he then went on in 1982 to direct the groundbreaking BBC2 anti-sitcom "The Young Ones". Working also as an assistant producer on that show, he went on to produce in the same year the unshown pilot of the Rowan Atkinson historical sitcom "Blackadder".cite web
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accessdate =2007-10-11] One of his biggest successes came in 1985, when he produced and directed the multi-award winning "Victoria Wood As Seen On TV", a sketch show written by (and starring) the popular comedienne.cite book
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Posner has since produced and directed some of the most popular British television comedies of the 1990s and 2000s. They include "Harry Enfield's Television Programme", "French & Saunders", "Paul Calf's Video Diaries", and "dinnerladies". More recently he was one of the TV directors covering the Live 8 concert. He was also producer of the second and third series of "Little Britain". [cite web
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His shows have won six BAFTA awards and been nominated for another seven. [cite web
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Posner formed Pozzitive Television with fellow TV producer David Tyler in 1992.

Posner also directed the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 in Birmingham.

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External links

* [http://catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/contributor/6269 Geoff Posner at the BBC Programme Catalogue]