{"id":1282,"date":"2016-05-10T12:35:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T12:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2024-01-14T10:26:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T10:26:31","slug":"9th-may-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/?p=1282","title":{"rendered":"9th May 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/68185255_004977279-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/68185255_004977279-1.jpg\" alt=\"_68185255_004977279-1\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/68185255_004977279-1.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/68185255_004977279-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gareth Gwenlan OBE, who as Head of BBC Comedy from 1983 to 1990 commissioned &#8216;Blackadder II&#8217;, &#8216;One Foot in the Grave&#8217;, and &#8216;Yes, Prime Minister&#8217;, has died at the age of 79. A skilled producer and director, his most endearing successes include &#8216;Red Dwarf&#8217;, &#8216;Only Fools and Horses&#8217;, and &#8216;To the Manor Born&#8217;; returning for the 25th. anniversary special from 2007 as pictured above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Gwenlan OBE, who as Head of BBC Comedy from 1983 to 1990 commissioned &#8216;Blackadder II&#8217;, &#8216;One Foot in the Grave&#8217;, and &#8216;Yes, Prime Minister&#8217;, has died at the age of 79. A skilled producer and director, his most endearing successes include &#8216;Red Dwarf&#8217;, &#8216;Only Fools and Horses&#8217;, and &#8216;To the Manor Born&#8217;; returning for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/?p=1282\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9th May 2016<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}