{"id":748016,"date":"2026-06-20T03:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/748016\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T03:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:10:14","slug":"james-burrows-legendary-director-of-cheers-and-friends-dies-aged-85-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/748016\/","title":{"rendered":"James Burrows, legendary director of Cheers and Friends, dies aged 85 &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE5NSFpkQzdrSFZRMkVVd2E5VGtaRTI1cG1hZUh6RDJaNUMzZG9qMHJOWmV6MDhLbnYtaFRoWjB5MEx2Zk9rM2Q3UmprQVpkRkVsTkJMMGtlb0FOUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James Burrows, legendary director of Cheers and Friends, dies aged 85<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi9gFBVV95cUxPb1RMMnp1dUU3NUtaakFlbTFWSC1qN1JpT3VVWVMzdkIwWjdYTWxqRmF0cEdlZ2gzeERaQ0VWRFdBN2hpQTJTQnVPRW40OERFNHpwVDZmQjFNb3hIUmNnQUlzak1INzNyQUNXRkpSUm1hUkhVUVlIUk90YTA2R0dVd25rdUlXYlZ5RUhrRXEtQXQ4VE5UWjlFY3ZrcFdtbXIzMThxV2R3S2VEQ2VPaGMwdWNiQWlVSHJvTWVuUTRDWnBEOW81cnpDVW5sNHVmWXQ5Tmd2RGlTSGo3ZmZFdnNSN1phT1BYdW03Z3VwN003RFJGbTctcmc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hollywood mourns death of TV legend<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;News.com.au<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMicEFVX3lxTE1zWV9CR3hrUjlJT1M4bVJBS0Q4WWJ2VEVQbEFTUFF5WUxqSGpsRXBtUEwxUXFxVGhMTVJ0ODdrdlRULThOMzdRZDdPT1BWTG9hdnJlRG5mYXRDSkJNcUtrWXFBbkNsVmIyYnFQdU9ic3I?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James Burrows Tributes: Lisa Kudrow, Tony Danza &amp; More Remember \u201cGreatest Of All Time\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Deadline<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijwFBVV95cUxOWW5LUXRDX0hXVUxtQ1lmLUsxRlpkZHJGNFk0MmJPS1hHX3d3a0JWSXFBbkhXMmtBcUYyY1k3T3h3MEU0b2RrZ2trVXFLaXRWVXpVWXhFNW1yUXpCM05ocmtudWRmVXdCVF9hd1owZE8xZmtNdDctWGY1T1JOTHliOVBIeTRXYTFQclotWnJraw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cWe Lost a Giant\u201d: James Burrows Mourned by Eric McCormack, Tony Danza and More<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Hollywood Reporter<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMieEFVX3lxTE5jcWRwYWt2N2pMNmhtZ0owUXFJZnlHTEFzWTUxY0dWOHBUWXp3SmFQRWhqNGlzOVFoVVZXaGUwb0pJLTYyeF91cnZOSmRZZkVEaVRnNl9ZUXFIT3B0QnhiYnVNVDBlemJZdF9oQ2lNTFhGZjJGN2dqRtIBfkFVX3lxTE1xOGFRRkpZUTlzYVo0MXFrdFBmb3MwOVZNR1gzZGZuUlpiMUxZWUNWYmx2bTV4MkRIbmUzd3k3REFncXZaT3VlQlhTM2VQR3JqYkZOa3liNE05NFVUU2kwb3dIS2hBdVVnNzhJc1UzNkVtVFNlbndHYlpmMmV5dw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Cheers&#8217; director James Burrows dies at 85<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;ABC7 Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Burrows, legendary director of Cheers and Friends, dies aged 85&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCHollywood mourns death of TV legend&nbsp;&nbsp;News.com.auJames Burrows Tributes:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-748016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}