It wasn't all that long ago, it seems, that Jennifer Saunders, writer and co-star of the hit Britcom,
Absolutely Fabulous, told Glamour magazine that she just didn't see a full-length motion picture version of the series happening.
Today, my friend Don Foster sent me the latest news from London's
The Express.
"As we're going into winter, a nice little summertime film seems rather attractive," Saunders said, regarding a film treatment of the comedy.
"Mrs
Lumley - who plays Patsy Stone in the long-running series - had
recently revealed that she would be happy to star in a film adaptation
of the show.
"Lumley and Saunders... reprised their roles [as Patsy & Edina] in a number of Ab Fab specials, most
recently an olympics-themed episode in 2012."
The BBC today quoted Saunders, when pressed about a movie treatment of
Ab Fab, as replying in their "Front Row" interview (with cheek, I must say): "As we're going into winter, a nice little summertime film seems rather attractive."
BBC executive Shane Allen allowed that "the door is always open for more Ab Fab." Oh, hoorah, sweetie-dahlings, hoorah!
Meanwhile, Saunders just published her autobiography,
Bonkers: My Life in Laughs, in the UK.
