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CAST
Edina Monsoon-Jennifer Saunders
Patsy Stone-Joanna Lumley
Saffron Monsoon-Julia Sawalha
June Monsoon (Mother)-June Whitfield
Bubble- Jane Horrocks

PRODUCER
Jon Plowman

PROGRAMMING HISTORY
BBC
November 1992-December 1992 - Six Episodes
January 1994-March 1994 - Six Episodes
March 1995-May 1995 - Six Episodes


WRITER
Jennifer Saunders

DIRECTOR
Bob Spiers



Absolutely Fabulous is popular amongst British women, as the main characters are so exaggerated. They play on the characteristics many people do not find appealing. Edina is so obsessed with the latest fashions, getting botox and spending her money on designer clothes. The fact that these women are wealthy enough to afford these things would usually mean viewers would look up to them. However, in Ab Fab, these women are always drunk or taking drugs, spending too much money and being generally very rude. This means that rather than looking up to these women, viewers will laugh at them as they do all these things usually found annoying in a comedic way. It shows that this aspirational lifestlye is not all it seems to be, these women are as common as the next.

Background Stuff

Set in London, Ab Fab was screened on BBC between 1992 and 2005.

Absolutely Fabulous first aired on 12 November 1992, and ran for three series until 4 May 1995, when the sixth episode of series 3 was billed as the last-ever episode. However, the following year in November 1996, two specials, called "The Last Shout", were broadcast and were also billed as the last-ever episodes. Both 'last episodes' featured end sequences with flashes to the future. However, on 31 August 2001 the fourth series premiered. A further series and three specials followed, the last of which aired on 25 December 2004.


Ab Fab is loved worldwide, being shown in the USA,Canada,Australia,Portugal,Serbia, Czech Republic, the Republic of Macedonia,the Netherlands, Germany,France,Finland, Poland and New Zealand. It also inspired a 2001 French Film 'Absolument fabuleux'.

I found these videos on Youtube

apparently theyre the best bits of Ab Fab, so lets have a look see.

ab fab

Fashion Consultant Edina and her best friend Patsy drive sensible daughter Saffron up the wall with their constant drug abuse and outrageous selfishness.


It came 17th in a poll of the 20 best British Sitcoms voted by the public on sitcom.co.uk





Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone are two immature, prosperous, but preposterous substance-abusing fashion and fad-obsessed Londoners who value fame and style over substance (unless they are controlled substances). Saffron, Edina's daughter, provides the persistently dour voice of Monsoon and Stone's super-ego. Edina and Saffy live in a house in Holland Park (although the house is seemingly very close to Shepherds Bush, much to Edina's chagrin), with Patsy spending most of her time there as well.

The programme circles around Eddy's ongoing struggle to achieve fame, success and a slender figure amidst the disapproval of her daughter and the constant presence of her increasingly senile mother. Throughout, Patsy is at her side encouraging the behaviours that are constantly causing her conflict. Much of the comedy of the show is physical, usually derived from Edina and Patsy's drunken and/or stoned states, with their favourite drinks being Bolly Stolly (a cocktail of Bollinger champagne and Stolichnaya vodka) and later Veuve & Bourb (a mix of Veuve Clicquot champagne and bourbon) or Dom & Bom (a mix of Dom Perignon champagne and Bombay Sapphire gin). The mutual loathing between Saffy and Patsy, as each tries to guide Edina's behaviour, also makes for many comic situations. A recurring gag found new ways for Edina to fall headfirst out of cars, windows, or down her kitchen stairs at least once every series.

Absolutely Fabulous

Lucky for me I got to change from Last Of The Summer Wine to Absolutely Fabulous.

YAYYYY :D

Wednesdays Lesson

In Wednesday's Lesson, we were put into teams to produce our own sitcoms.
We had to draw a setting, character and a plotline and come up with a sitcom for them.
I got a submarine, ambitious snitch and a thief. We decided it would be 30 minutes long, from the point of view of the snitch. It would be slapstick comedy, with the thief getting caught out every time by the snitch.


We did a quick starter on sitcoms, trying to link titles with loglines and dates they began.

We also learnt all about pitches, treatments, synopses and loglines.

A useful website to find out about how to write a treatment is :

http://www.ehow.com/how_2002034_write-a-treatment.html

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