{"id":383097,"date":"2011-04-20T19:26:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T19:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/20\/absolutely-fabulous-joanna-lumley-and-jennifer-saunders-return-for-new-series\/"},"modified":"2011-04-20T19:26:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T19:26:05","slug":"absolutely-fabulous-joanna-lumley-and-jennifer-saunders-return-for-new-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/20\/absolutely-fabulous-joanna-lumley-and-jennifer-saunders-return-for-new-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Absolutely Fabulous: Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders return for new series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Liz Thomas<\/a>
Last updated at 8:26 PM on 20th April 2011<\/p>\n

Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders will return for a new series of Absolutely Fabulous, the BBC has confirmed.<\/p>\n

The pair will reprise their much loved roles as Patsy and Edina for a three episode run of the hit show \u2013 the first new shows for six years.<\/p>\n

Filming is scheduled to begin this summer although Miss Saunders has yet to write the script.<\/p>\n

\"Open<\/p>\n

Open the bolly darling, we’re back! Joanna Lumley aka Patsy told Hello Magazine she will begin filming again the Autumn<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018In late August I start filming on three episodes of Absolutely Fabulous, which we are all ecstatic about. 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,\u2019 Miss Lumley told Hello! magazine.<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail revealed the show was set to return last November in an interview with Miss Lumley.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Jen wrote to me and said, \u201cLet’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.<\/p>\n

‘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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

A BBC spokeswoman said: \u2018We’re putting the finishing touches to the deal to bring it back.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"Who<\/p>\n

Bring it on: The series follows the lives of the fashion and fad-obsessed PR women who valued fame and fortune over their families<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The final episode of the BBC show aired on Christmas Day in 2004 after seven successful years, from 1992 to 1996 and then from 2001 to 2004.<\/p>\n

Since then it has continued to be repeated on BBC2 and on satellite channels. The series, affectionately nicknamed Ab Fab, followed the lives of the fashion and fad-obsessed PR women who valued fame and fortune over everything else in their lives \u2013 including their families.<\/p>\n

\"Comic<\/p>\n

Comic couple: Jennifer Saunders with her husband Adrian Edmonson, who supported her through breast cancer treatment last year<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

They spent most of their time in Edina\u2019s London home in swish Holland Park, where her daughter Saffy, played by Julia Sawalha, and senile mother, played by June Whitfield, would berate them for their childish and outrageous behaviour.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A revival of the globally successful sitcom would mark a much-anticipated return for Miss Saunders, 52, who has spent the past year undergoing treatment for breast cancer.<\/p>\n

Her husband, comic actor Adrian Edmondson, told the Daily Mail last month that she was still being treated for the disease.<\/p>\n

He said: \u2018No one gets the all-clear. The treatment lasts five years and we\u2019re only a year into it.<\/p>\n

\u2018The big chemotherapy\u2019s finished and the radiotherapy\u2019s finished.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s this low-level treatment that carries on for five years, but you know from the beginning of the treatment when it\u2019s going to stop.<\/p>\n

\u2018So, there is no battle. I hate the word battle. You just get battered with a load of drugs.<\/p>\n

People want the words \u201ctrauma\u201d, \u201cbattle\u201d and \u201c life-changing\u201d, but it\u2019s not a great three-part TV drama full of moments, it\u2019s a long grind, like a slow car crash that will last five years and then, hopefully, we\u2019ll get out.’<\/p>\n

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