From French & Saunders online:
Crack open the Bolly sweetie, darling... Nineties cult TV comedy Absolutely Fabulous is set to return with a brand new series.The show's stars, Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders are in talks to revive their characters. And script editor Ruby Wax told me at a RADA screening of the movie Perfume in Mayfair that she was preparing to start work on a new Absolutely Fabulous project at the end of the year.
My sources say Saunders and Lumley are also keen to work together again. And June Whitfield, who plays Eddy's mother, tells me she will 'certainly take part'.Lumley would only say 'never say never' when I asked her about the new series last week.
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I loved AbFab, but I wonder... (Below threshold)1. Posted by John | January 15, 2007 8:34 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
I loved AbFab, but I wonder if you could sell it in this day and age (and country).
We've gotten pretty judgemental about alcohol (and drug abuse). Remember the old Dean Martin show? Dean allways had a glass in his hand, and slured a bit, and appeared a bit sloppy, but people thought this was charming. You just couldn't put that on the air today. People would be yelling for him to go to rehab.
Same with the old Pepe LaPew cartoon. It was a classic, but if I pitched the idea to make a cartoon about a date rapist skunk today, I'd be thrown out of the room.
I loved AbFab, but I just can't see how you translate getting drunk and throwing up into your panties into something the American audience will accept.
1. Posted by John | January 15, 2007 8:34 PM |
Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on January 15, 2007 20:34
2. Posted by T. G. Scott | January 16, 2007 12:33 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
I got addicted to this show on our Beeb station here in the US. You either appreciate British humor or you don't. There's hardly any middle territory among people I've talked to about Brit TV. I think their original versions of programs that we Americans have stolen and mimiced are better too (The Office; What Not to Wear). I think the British are tons funnier that Americans ever thought about being. Sure, Ab Fab's off-color, crass, etc. That's why it's funny! I love and miss Patsy and Edina. Bring them back!
2. Posted by T. G. Scott | January 16, 2007 12:33 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on January 16, 2007 12:33