Absolutely Fabulous

Absolutely Fabulous is a British sitcom that five seasons long (between 1992 - 2005 and 2011 - 2012) ran on the BBC. In Netherlands the series was broadcast by theVPRO. in Flanders on the transmitter Canvas.



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[verbergen]  *1 General  ==General[ Edit] == The series is about a family, mother Eddie Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) and daughter Saffron (Julia Sawalha), whose roles are opposite in terms of responsibility and attitude to life, and the other way around than one would expect given the generation difference. In addition also play Joanna Lumley, June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks an important role in the series. The series was directed by Bob Spiers and produced by Jon Plowman. The scenarios were written by Jennifer Saunders.
 * 2 Origin
 * 3 Cast
 * 3.1 Fixed characters
 * 3.2 guest stars
 * 4 Music
 * 5 external link

To 2005 a total of 36 episodes were produced (including specials), but there were three new episodes in 2011 and 2012 broadcast: for Christmas day 2011, for new year's day 2012 and for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Equally there was talk that the American channel FOX would make a remake of the series, but those plans were eventually cancelled. ==Origin[ Edit] == Absolutely Fabulous is based on a sketch from French and Saunders of the BBC. Here a mother (Jennifer Saunders) and daughter (Dawn French) stepped up, whose roles were reversed with regard to responsibility and attitude to life. The character of the mother, Edina Monsoon (or simply ' Eddie ') was loosely based on the character Eddie Monsoon from Eddie Monsoon-A Life? by The Comic Strip Presents ... from 1984. Eddie drink excessively, used drugs and is obsessed with fame, clothing and money. Her daughter Saffron (' Amy ') is her polar opposite in everything. Saffron carries old fashioned clothes, studying hard and trying to keep her mother somewhat on the right path.

For the television series is the cast adapted and expanded. Dawn French played the daughter in the pilot episode, but one had to admit that her age was not very credible in the role of daughter. Julia Sawalha was cast In her place. There were two new fixed roles credited: Eddies girlfriend Patsy Stone (played by Joanna Lumley) and Eddies mother (played by June Whitfield). Patsy's only life task seems the excessive consumption of alcohol, drugs and sex with young men. They often comes into conflict with Amy, who finds that she has a bad influence on her mother. Eddie is owner of a PR-Agency and suffers from a kind of ' midlife crisis '. She is constantly struggling with her weight the forty, and trying with all his might to mask the signs of aging. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Fixed characters<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Guest Stars<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The title music of the television series is the song This Wheel's On Fire, sung by Julie Driscoll and Adrian Edmondson. In addition, first appeared in may 1994 a single with the title Absolutely Fabulous, under the same band name. It was a production of the Pet Shop Boys with the assistance of Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley, especially for Comic Relief, a charity in Britain. The dance number with sound clips from the TV series reached number 6 in the UK singles chart.
 * Christopher Ryan -Marshall Turtle
 * Mo Gaffney -Bo Turtle
 * Christopher Malcolm -Justin
 * Helen Lederer -Catriona
 * Harriet Thorpe -Fleur
 * Naoko Mori -Sarah (Titikaka)
 * Gary Beadle -Oliver
 * Kathy Burke -Magda
 * Celia Imrie -Claudia Bing