European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                British Are absolutely stuck on a fab by Matt Wolf associated press s Weetie get ready. Two boozing snorting irresponsible slaves to every passing fashion have hit american television in the form of absolutely fabulous. Britain is still reeling from the Success of the program among the most popular situation comedies in bbl history. Also use Yabu Ous is the sharpest collection of outrageous and cruel humor since faulty towers. Here a just a partial list of victims left in the series Mirthful merciless Wake relations Between mothers and daughters at least that of twice divorced hipster Edina Jennifer Saunders and her Prim teen age daughter Saffron Julia Sawalha. In this role reversed pair Edina is often reduced to wheedling her daughter a a help Mummy Sweetee Weetie a a for support and Comfort. A fashion editors skewered by Joanna Lumleym a riotous portrait of Down at the heels Glamour puss Patsy Edina s closest Friend. Quot one snap of my fingers and i can raise hemlines so High that the world is your gynaecologist Quot Patsy boasts political correctness for which a fab has Only contempt. When not burning Down the Kitchen or filling the parlor with modish ugly Art Edina and Patsy fling Money about indulging every appetite to a excess. A. \ a a. A Quot a a "1 just try never to write a positive figure if i can help it a giggled Saunders who wrote the series Pilot. Quot i done to see any space in the series for anyone nor Maior  the first series Drew an average 8 million viewers Over six episodes on bbc2. The second series last year shifted to More mainstream bbl and pulled 10.5 million viewers a a fifth of Britain s population a every episode. All 12 episodes Are cruising three times a week a. Mondays saturdays and sundays a on . Cables. Comedy Central Edina was born on by cd a French and Saunders show in which Saunders longtime partner Dawn French played Patsy. Later encouraged to work on her own away from French Saunders wrote a Pilot for a fab. A my agent rang up and said a you be got to do something  we needed to keep the Wolf from the door a the 36-year-old Saunders recalled in a Telephone interview. A Medina was the character i had most written my self i Felt i could take her  Saunders recognizes no boundaries for her charac tors including drug induced hallucinations crammed with celebrity cameos including Lulu Miranda Richardson Helena Bonham Carter and Germaine a Greer. A consider Edina a impulse to emulate Mia Farrow and adopt babies. A i could get one in every color a one in every room a she says asking her daughter How to go about it. _ a a should imagine you have to go to Romania a. Sallie says. A a a done to be silly. In a sure they could Send a selection Over that t could choose from a says the addled. Edina. Y. Americans Are treated brutally. The two examples on a fab Are Happy talking dim bulbs. A every life is More or less a trash can among whose garbage we have to look out what the person ought to have been a one rattles. A a Lumleym a unbuttoned performance a in every sense a has made the former Star of the new avengers a British sensation. A the press follows her every move from Holiday plans to honorary degrees. To the Gay Community each Jennifer Saunders left and Joanna Lumley Star in absolutely fabulous on bbl and comedy Central. She was an instant icon. With two series behind her Saunders is almost finished filming the third in which Edina follows Patsy to a  in new York. A the Manhattan sequences feature Waik on by such doyens of new York journalism As Elizabeth Kilberis editor in chief of harpers Bazaar a a Liz played herself a said Saunders. A a it so hello Liz hello a a and Grace Coddington fashion director of Vogue. Among those not included Are rival new York based British editors Tina Brown and Anna Wintour. Said Saunders a we were too frightened i done to want frightening  Saunders denied reports that the Hob Cable Channel was planning to co produce six episodes based in los Angeles. And anyway she said try to imagine Edina and Patsy let Loose in . A a they re not made for a City where you can die in an earthquake or of smog but you can to smoke or  Page 8 sunday september 4, 1994