Absolutely Fabulous Edina's comparatively mild self-destructive behaviour. Despite being a middle-aged, twice-divorced career woman, Edina is reliant upon the support of her daughter Saffron (Julia Sawalha), a secondary school pupil (and later university student) whose constant care of her mother has left her a bitter cynic. The series also stars June Whitfield as Edina's sarcastic and thieving mother, and Jane Horrocks as Edina's brainless personal assistant. In 2000, the show was ranked number 17 on the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes by the British Film Institute. "Absolutely Fabulous" returned for three special episodes which were originally aired on 25 December 2011, 1
Absolutely (TV series) featuring the original cast sans Jack Docherty. The new series, a co-production between Absolutely Productions Ltd and The Comedy Unit, was recorded on two evenings in August and September 2015 at The Oran Mor in Glasgow. The first episode was broadcast on Sunday 6 September 2015. A second four-part series aired on BBC Radio 4 during the summer of 2017. In the early 1990s, Pete Baikie and Gordon Kennedy briefly toured as comedy band, "The Hairstyles". In the mid-90s, following the success of TV spin-off "Mr. Don & Mr. George", Moray Hunter and Jack Docherty toured together as "Hunter and