It is with a heavy heart and great sadness that I have to write this. Geoffrey Perkins, one of Britain\u2019s great sitcom and TV show producers of the past 20 years has died in a tragic accident near his home in London.<\/p>\n
Source: BBC.co.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n Geoffrey Perkins, 55, worked for many years for BBC Radio, where he created the game Mornington Crescent in I\u2019m Sorry Haven\u2019t a Clue.<\/p>\n He also produced the Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy, one of the most successful radio shows ever made and was executive producer on Blackadder: Back and Forth.<\/p>\n He became head of comedy for BBC TV with highlights of his TV career including The Catherine Tate Show, The Fast Show and Channel 4\u2019s Father Ted.<\/p>\n \u2018Embraced talent\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n BBC director of vision Jana Bennett said she was \u201cshocked and deeply saddened\u201d by the news.<\/p>\n \u201cGeoffrey Perkins was an outstanding creator of countless comedy hits on the BBC and elsewhere, and a very distinguished former BBC head of comedy.<\/p>\n \u201cHe embraced comedy talent to create unique programmes which will be enjoyed for a very long time to come. All of our thoughts are with Geoffrey\u2019s family at this very sad time.\u201d<\/p>\n He left his role as a BBC radio producer to work at Thames TV for a brief period.<\/p>\n His many television credits include Spitting Image, Saturday Night Live and Friday Night Live, The Harry Enfield Television Programme, which he also co-wrote, and Ben Elton – The Man From Auntie.<\/p>\n Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n He produced the topical drama A Very Open Prison for BBC Two and the first series of the BAFTA award-winning Father Ted for Channel 4.<\/p>\n A writer, producer and performer, Mr Perkins became BBC TV\u2019s head of comedy in May 1995.<\/p>\n He was previously a director of Hat Trick Productions, one of the UK\u2019s leading independent production companies, for eight years.<\/p>\n On leaving the BBC, he joined Tiger Aspect productions.<\/p>\n His latest production for the BBC with Tiger Aspect, Harry and Paul, with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, starts next week.<\/p>\n His credits as executive producer at the BBC included The Fast Show, Happiness, My Hero, 2 Pints of Lager, My Family, Coupling, and Big Train. He also co-produced both series of Ben Elton\u2019s The Thin Blue Line.<\/p>\n His writing credits include Radio Active and KYTV, co-written with Angus Deayton and winner of the Silver Rose Of Montreux, and Norbert Smith – A Life, co-written with Harry Enfield which also won the Silver Rose of Montreux and an International Emmy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is with a heavy heart and great sadness that I have to write this. Geoffrey Perkins, one of Britain\u2019s great sitcom and TV show producers of the past 20 years has died in a tragic accident near his home in London. Source: BBC.co.uk Geoffrey Perkins, 55, worked for many years for BBC Radio, where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}