Career
Posner has directed and produced some of Britain"s most successful comedy shows since the early 1980s. Starting off as a director on the satirical show Not the Nine O"Clock News, he then went on in 1982 to direct the groundbreaking BBC2 anti-sitcom The Young Ones. Working also as an assistant producer on that show, he went on to produce in the same year the unshown pilot of the Rowan Atkinson historical sitcom Blackadder.
One of his biggest successes came in 1985, when he produced and directed the multi-award winning Victoria Wood As Seen On television, a sketch show written by (and starring) the popular comedian.
Posner has since produced and directed some of the most popular British television comedies of the 1990s and 2000s. They include Harry Enfield"s Television Programme, French & Saunders, Paul Calf"s Video Diaries, and dinnerladies.
More recently he was one of the television directors covering the Live 8 concert. He was also producer of the second and third series of Little Britain.
Posner formed Pozzitive Television with fellow television producer David Tyler (United Kingdom) in 1992.
Posner also directed the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 in Birmingham and the Queen"s Diamond Jubilee Concert in 2012.
