James Burrows, the legendary television director, has died. Burrows shaped NBC's iconic 'Must See TV' era throughout the nineteen-nineties. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warren Littlefield, the NBC executive who first met Burrows in nineteen seventy-nine and later ran NBC Entertainment, described him as 'America's greatest and most prolific exporter of the world of laughter and joy.' His influence on television comedy defined generations of broadcast entertainment.

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