Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus…even in 2020! The Vicar Of Dibley, the classic comedy starring Dawn French, will return with The Vicar of Dibley in Lockdown, a series of lockdown specials as part of the BBC’s festive holiday line-up this year. Created and written by Four Weddings And A Funeral writer Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, the series of three 10-minute […]
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Since everything you read on the Internet is true, I’m taking Dawn French’s teasing of something special from the creators of The Vicar of Dibley this season to the bank. Ok, fine, I can only find one mention of the absolutely brilliant news reportedly dropped recently by French, who plays Dibley’s vicar, Geraldine Granger, but I’m taking that as meaning ‘there is a chance’ that this possibility could be worth the paper it was printed on.
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Dawn French has confirmed she will reprise the role of Reverend Geraldine Granger in a much anticipated/long overdue revival of The Vicar of Dibley for next week’s The Big Night In on BBC1. This marks the first time in five years that French has portrayed the character as she last played Reverend Geraldine in a sketch for […]
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Clive Swift, known to millions as Hyacinth Bucket’s long-suffering husband Richard in the BBC One 90s sitcom, Keeping Up Appearances, died Friday after a short illness at the age of 82. Swift, who spent 10 years at the Royal Shakespeare Company before breaking into television, also acted in such series as Peak Practice, Born and […]
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Known for portraying “The Most Boring Man in Britain,” his six-decade career was actually quite varied.
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Unfortunately, the actual filming of a very large turkey on your head isn’t as funny as watching the finished product.
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Revisiting the institutional, cultural phenomenon of Comic Relief is a perfect way to kick off our new weekly feature on Fridays, From the Vault.
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Vicar of Dibley fans can now stay in the village where the show was filmed right opposite the church which served as St Barnabus in the hit series starring Dawn French as the Reverend Geraldine Granger. Set in the fictional Oxfordshire village of Dibley, the series was filmed near Henley-on-Thames in the Buckinghamshire village of […]
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Fans have but one question, which is something of a cold case itself — What does DS Khan carry around in his rucksack?
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When Dibley lost its verger on Wednesday, the world lost the talents of the brilliant Emma Chambers. Best known for her role as Alice Horton (née Tinker) in Vicar of Dibley and Honey Thacker in the Richard Curtis film, Notting Hill, Chambers died of natural causes on Wednesday at the far too young age of 53. Chambers, who […]
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