{"id":486552,"date":"2026-06-20T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/486552\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T05:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T05:00:12","slug":"james-burrows-legendary-director-of-cheers-and-friends-dies-aged-85-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/486552\/","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\/CBMiygFBVV95cUxNTGxyeEVOTktZVWpCaVdGUEViSjFhYlQ1eV8ySkk2b29Va2RNZDVzZVpLeVBlUHNoblFEa0I0UFU4VEVUWkJmWUUyU2NfWExTQUt2WldWS280YTB0QUg1VUlZVXJmSG5mVmtkRjhpQnhqM0ZmQXg4eTl5Tk81SzVvdzE0LVU0LVlSZ0F6elBFYmFYcUdmdDBKeTcwa1ZvQkhwQlI5b2dmMksyZ1BCek5SZjFkZExhLVNzam1USWNybk1BeXM4ZHRBUUl3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TV comedy legend James Burrows dies aged 85<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;NZ Herald<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMioAFBVV95cUxPb0t6UGtSRjNIbkhYMDlKSVdsYkItWngydmtNZDlHZEptTTF1eER5WTZRUHZGTHl4UmdGNzVuSmRFS0pIR0NDZDNkVF8xbHpJYlVZd2I3dWJsM1h1cER3Nlg0MXBsZWxqOVNFNzd2cms5Vmx4aWxURkZ1YTVGVjRzaEtuTjFxYTlMdGJhTVBmYlA1aDJDTVhaME5xNW5WdTlr?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James Burrows, director of classic TV comedies including Cheers and Friends, dies at 85<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Stuff<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\/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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Burrows, legendary director of Cheers and Friends, dies aged 85&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCTV comedy legend James Burrows dies aged 85&nbsp;&nbsp;NZ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-486552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}