{"id":748591,"date":"2026-06-20T02:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/748591\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T02:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:46:08","slug":"james-burrows-legendary-director-of-cheers-and-friends-dies-aged-85-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/748591\/","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\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE5TbFVDMnlBZTl2Y21qSUV1SDJ1REhDQXZ3R3g5VWFYM1dJNWJtTFVqX0pjNHNseWRZUExfSWM1enR0UTFTbXpzVjBFbnoyeTlaZjFhazE4SjhFOWl6cTlwWWo5b3g2R09EVVBBcVFteW5xNmVOU0xXV2FkcTB4TTA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James Burrows, Master of the TV Sitcom, Dies at 85<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The New York Times<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\/CBMidEFVX3lxTE41N3pIdExVNnY1OUpCamE5YXdFSFZnVk5qdG9mdzdoQi01Mzc4YW0zd0pFZFVzUU5hUjNDWVFHeG9Ib2J1Nko1OWEtR3AtMmE2cU53QnJPbW51Qm03RjNpNVlfNFB5T2lzUGctVGEzREcwWWIy?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u2018Taxi\u2019 Star Tony Danza Pays Tribute to Director James Burrows: \u2018We Have Lost the Greatest of All Time\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Yahoo News Canada<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiiAFBVV95cUxNTDBwbVdtRzc2SzFHcVdhdDNPbnF2V0VVMzNLM1Z5d0Q2dVZMU3NCdHprSDk1b2xEZ09ZRlUtS2hxaFBrYUlQWC1qUVVQNjhtOHo0dzFnQW5CMUR1ODBkZTFlRWZPakdGS0JSN2NZRjB4c1dGd3MySnBPSmpqM3hzTTZIbVVDWjB1?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TV legend James Burrows, co-creator of Cheers and director for hit show Will &amp; Grace, dies at 85<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;CBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Burrows, legendary director of Cheers and Friends, dies aged 85&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCJames Burrows, Master of the TV Sitcom, Dies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-748591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}