IanLaFrenais ranks among British television's most accomplished comedy writers, most of his greatest successes being collaborations with BBC writer-producer Dick Clement; with Clement he has contributed several of the most enduringly popular comedy series of the last three decades.
La Frenais's writing showed facility with characterization and an easy grasp of northern traits and humour, as well as a certain acuteness in exposing the absurdities of the British class system in a rapidly changing world.
Though, with Clement, LaFrenais enjoyed significant success as a writer for the cinema with his script for the cult film The Commitments (a triumph that prompted the pair to attempt a television version under the title Over the Rainbow).
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