


She is also known for portraying Lynda Day, editor of the Junior Gazette, in Press Gang and Lydia Bennet in the 1995 television miniseries of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The wild misadventures of Edina 'Eddy' Monsoon and her best friend Patsy Stone, who live in a nearly constant haze of drugged, drunken selfishness. Most recently, Little Britain USA has received some stone-cold reviews, with the Washington Post describing its sketches as ‘too tasteless even for a celebration of bad taste’, and Variety adding ‘the wit level of these over-the-top interludes seldom rises above what's scrawled on a middle-school bathroom wall’. Julia Sawalha (born 9 September 1968) is a British actress known mainly for her role as Saffron Monsoon in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. Absolutely Fabulous: With Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield. ‘Let's hope they get it right.’Īlthough some US remakes have proved a huge success – namely Steve Carrell’s version of Ricky Gervais's David Brent in The Office – many others have flopped, including Fawlty Towers and Cold Feet. This is the second time an attempt has been made to create an American version of the show, with a pilot featuring Roseanne Barr and Carrie Fisher failing to air ten years ago.Įxecutive producer of the BBC original, John Plowman, voiced his doubts about the likelihood of the show being a success in the States: ‘The trouble with doing Ab Fab in America is that it will have to end with Edina and Saffy hugging, Patsy giving up drink and drugs, and them all hugging mum.
