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John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd (born 30 September 1951) is a British comedy writer and television producer. He is the great nephew of John Hardress Lloyd.
Early life and career
Lloyd was born in Dover and educated at West Hill Park School in Titchfield, Hants; The King's School, Canterbury; and Trinity College, Cambridge. Here he befriended, and later shared a flat with Douglas Adams. He worked as a radio producer at the BBC 1974–1978 and created The News Quiz, The News Huddlines, To The Manor Born (with Peter Spence) and Quote... Unquote (with Nigel Rees).
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John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd (born 30 September 1951) is a British comedy writer and television producer. He is the great nephew of John Hardress Lloyd.
Early life and career
Lloyd was born in Dover and educated at West Hill Park School in Titchfield, Hants; The King's School, Canterbury; and Trinity College, Cambridge. Here he befriended, and later shared a flat with Douglas Adams. He worked as a radio producer at the BBC 1974–1978 and created The News Quiz, The News Huddlines, To The Manor Born (with Peter Spence) and Quote... Unquote (with Nigel Rees). He wrote Hordes of the Things (as J. H. W. Lloyd) with Andrew ("A. P. R.") Marshall, co-authored two episodes of Doctor Snuggles with Douglas Adams and then went on to co-write the fifth and sixth episodes of the first radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with him. (Douglas Adams wrote all the other previous and subsequent episodes solo, as well as the television adaptation – though Lloyd was involved in the TV series as Associate Producer.) Lloyd then worked as a TV producer at both the BBC and ITV 1979–1989 where he created Not the Nine O'Clock News (with Sean Hardie) and Spitting Image (with Peter Fluck and Roger Law). He also produced all four Blackadder series.
Books
He co-authored the books:
Recent work
Lloyd has worked as a TV commercials director on and off since 1987. He is married with three children and lives in the UK. His first new TV series for 14 years, QI (short for Quite Interesting, and a deliberate reversal of IQ), starring Stephen Fry and Alan Davies, began on 11 September 2003 at 10pm on BBC2 for a run of 12 episodes. It is now in its sixth series, which started on BBC One in early 2009, produced by Piers Fletcher. All the episodes of QI (including the pilot) have been directed by Ian Lorimer. Lloyd currently presents the radio series, The Museum Of Curiosity (2008), which he co-created with producers Richard Turner & Dan Schreiber and co-host Bill Bailey.
External links
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