Joanna
Lumley (aka Patsy) and (Jennifer Saunders (aka Edina)
are back in a new 90 minute movie tilted Absolutely
Fabulous in New York. The new production by the BBC
Production in association with COMEDY CENTRAL and
will include the original cast members.
Absolutely
Fabulous in New York story line: Patsy
has now left her job on a glossy magazine to become a very
important creative director and buyer for “Jeremy’s,”
a new-concept fashion store. This gives Patsy, Fleur
(Harriet Thorpe), and Catriona (Helen Lederer) the perfect
opportunity to take London Fashion Week by storm. Having
gotten a taste for flash photography, frocks and male
models, Patsy sets her sights across the Atlantic and plans
a trip to New York for Fashion Week.
Bo (Mo Gaffney) and Edina's ex-husband
Marshall (Christopher Ryan) are running a Christian TV show
and Saffy (Julia Sawalha) is observing the world from inside
a cupboard as she believes this will help her career as a
writer.
Meanwhile, Edina,
with no company left to run, tries to find yet more new ways
to lose weight and attempts to train Bubble (Jane Horrocks) as
her personal PA. However, Mother (June Whitfield) lets it slip
that Eddie’s long lost son Serge is not studying at the
bottom of the ocean, but living in the party capital of
America - New
York City. Despite Saffy’s best attempts to hide her brother’s
exact whereabouts, Eddie and Patsy take on the Big Apple in
search of Serge and some partying. The pair wreack havoc in
the city that never sleeps, partying at fashions shows and
becoming a true "duo" with the help of gay counselor
Whoopi Goldberg.
Premiers
on Comedy Central
Saturday, February 8th @ 8pm
Links:
Hollywoodfyi.com's AbFab page
Comedy
Central's AbFab New York page
Global AbFab
Fan Site
The
Absoulty Faboulus Home Fan page
BBC:
AbFab Home page
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