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Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Spiers joined the staff of the BBC in the late 1960s, working as an assistant floor manager and later a production assistant, before eventually working his way up to become a director. In this capacity he worked on several high-profile programmes, such as Dad's Army, Are You Being Served? and It Ain't Half Hot MumIt Ain't Half Hot Mum was a 1970s British sitcom, set in India during the Second World War. The series was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and was an obvious attempt to capitalise on the success of their earlier work, Dad's Army''. The humour was l, all sitcoms, a genre with which he became particularly associated.
It was because of his talent for directing comedy that he was chosen to handle the second series of John CleeseQ in Die Another Day. John Marwood Cleese (born October 27, 1939 in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England) is a British comedian and actor. Biography Cleese was educated at Clifton College in Bristol. His talent for comedy emerged as a member of the Cambri's famous Fawlty Towers in 1979, which already had an enormous reputation on the basis of its initial six episodes in 1975Events January January 1 Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21 January 5 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, i. The second series was a success, but shortly after having directed this and the unbroadcast pilot of Not the Nine O'Clock NewsNot the Nine O'Clock News was a ground-breaking comedy show shown on the BBC in the 1980s. Griff Rhys Jones, Rowan Atkinson, Pamela Stephenson, Mel Smith. Background The show's name derived from its broadcast schedule — it was transmitted on BBC Two at th, Spiers left the staff of the BBC to work as a freelance director.
Throughout the 1980sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s Years: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Events and trends he worked on a number of programmes, of particular note being Channel 4Channel 4 is a television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television), launched on November 2, 1982. Like the BBC, it has a public service remit and is operated by a non-profit corporation, Channel 4 Television Corporation. Unlike the BBC,'s anthology comedy series The Comic Strip Presents... and the BBC sketch shows French and Saunders and A Bit of Fry and Laurie. From 1989 he also directed several episodes of the children's comedy / drama series Press Gang for the ITV network.
His association with comediennes Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders from directing their sketch show led to him working on individual projects from each of them during the 1990s. With French he worked on the macabre comedy anthology series Murder Most Horrid, and more famously with Saunders he helmed Absolutely Fabulous throughout the decade, the show having originated in a sketch from an episode of French and Saunders which had also been directed by Spiers.
Later in the 1990s he tried his hand and directing for the cinema for the first time, helming the Spice Girls' film Spiceworld: The Movie and the Disney feature That Darn Cat, both in 1997. He currently continues to direct comedy programmes for British television, as well as developing other feature film projects.