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Thread started 04/20/11 1:22pm

Efan

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Sweetie darling, I have good news

To celebrate, should we finish off the beluga or have the smoked salmon and nibbly things?

Absolutely Fabulous to return to BBC1

Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley to film three new epsiodes of sitcom later this year

Crack open the Bolly and set the Sky+, sweetie – Absolutely Fabulous is set to return to BBC1 after an absence of six years.

Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley will reprise their roles as Patsy and Edina in three new episodes of the sitcom expected to begin filming later this year. The BBC said it was "putting the finishing touches to the deal" and is expected to confirm it imminently.

Lumley is reported to have told Hello! magazine that shooting will begin in the summer, but she said Saunders had not yet started on the script.

"In late August I start filming on three episodes of Absolutely Fabulous, which we are all ecstatic about," added Lumley. "Miss Saunders has been so busy writing Uptown Downstairs Abbey for Comic Relief and also Spice Girls: The Musical, I don't think she's started [the script]."

Lumley sparked speculation about a possible return for the show last November when she said Saunders had written to her about bringing the sitcom back.

"Jen wrote to me and said, 'Let's talk through it. What do you think?'. And I said, 'Bring it on'. Because we're all still here. Mother's still alive, the wonderful June Whitfield. Julia Sawalha [and] Jane Horrocks [are] all still alive and available ... and I think we just have to do it," she said at the time.

"The great thing is that because ... we fast-forwarded to where they're very old and nearly dead and practically plugged into vodka machines, it doesn't matter how beyond [the original series] we do it," she added.

Absolutely Fabulous was first broadcast in 1992 and ran for three series and a two-part special until 1996. It returned for two more series and another two specials between 2001 and 2004, with a Comic Relief edition on BBC1 in 2005.

A BBC spokeswoman said: "We're putting the finishing touches to the deal to bring it back and as soon as we're in a position to confirm it we will."

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Reply #1 posted 04/20/11 1:58pm

CallMeCarrie

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Those ladies are getting old. What are they going to talk about?

Edina: "Sweety, darling - help mummy change her Depends. Mummy has

started leaking every time I laugh."

Saffron: "Mother! I can't leave work every time you need your adult diaper changed! Ask Patsy to help you."

Edina: "Saffy, you know that Patsy's become a bitch ever since her stroke. Since she can't swallow liquids, she makes me give her vodka via enema."

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Reply #2 posted 04/20/11 2:27pm

Rayan

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I wasn't too fond of the later episodes of the show so I wasn't sure how I felt about the news, until I got to this line:

"And I said, 'Bring it on'. Because we're all still here"

something about that line is so beautiful. love the spirit. I'm definitely in on this.

"what's that book where they're all behind the wardrobe?"

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Reply #3 posted 04/21/11 5:03am

physco185	Kath n Kim by a freckle
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Reply #4 posted 04/21/11 6:46am

Genesia

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<--- starts pouring vodka and clears a spot on the sofa for johnart

We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves.

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Reply #5 posted 04/21/11 7:17am

johnart

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Genesia said:

<--- starts pouring vodka and clears a spot on the sofa for johnart

You get me. touched

Only 3 episodes though? We better speed-drink.

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Reply #6 posted 04/21/11 7:22am

johnart

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CallMeCarrie said:

Those ladies are getting old. What are they going to talk about?

Edina: "Sweety, darling - help mummy change her Depends. Mummy has

started leaking every time I laugh."

Saffron: "Mother! I can't leave work every time you need your adult diaper changed! Ask Patsy to help you."

Edina: "Saffy, you know that Patsy's become a bitch ever since her stroke. Since she can't swallow liquids, she makes me give her vodka via enema."

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Are u kidding??? Jen Saunders is brilliant. She can make anything funny.

There's actually a scene at the end of one episode where it looks ahead and they are old ladies and it's hilarious. lol
I can't find it on youtube.

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Reply #7 posted 04/21/11 8:21am

Genesia

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johnart said:

Genesia said:

<--- starts pouring vodka and clears a spot on the sofa for johnart

You get me.

Only 3 episodes though? We better speed-drink.

Every time someone says, "Sweetie," you have to drink. nod

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Reply #8 posted 04/21/11 9:03am

LadyLuvSexxy	heart explodes from the excitement FRICK FRICK FRICK! I'm already laughing my butt off watching the old episodes on Logo again. I could watch them over and over all day just for the bad behavior and Patsy's hair. I LOVED her crazy ass so much. I so happy!
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Reply #9 posted 04/21/11 9:04am

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Love the show. Only 3? Come on comedy central by a season's worth and be done with it.

99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment

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Reply #10 posted 04/21/11 10:23am

KingBAD

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CallMeCarrie said:

Those ladies are getting old. What are they going to talk about?

Edina: "Sweety, darling - help mummy change her Depends. Mummy has

started leaking every time I laugh."

Saffron: "Mother! I can't leave work every time you need your adult diaper changed! Ask Patsy to help you."

Edina: "Saffy, you know that Patsy's become a bitch ever since her stroke. Since she can't swallow liquids, she makes me give[/b] her vodka via enema.[/b]"

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