Joanna Lumley
- 78 years old
- English
- Actor and writer
Press clippings
Peter Serafinowicz teases more Look Around You as he joins Amandaland
Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper have discussed reviving their breakout television series, Look Around You, Serafinowicz has revealed, as he joins the cast of the BBC's Motherland spin-off, Amandaland.
British Comedy Guide, 13th November 2024Absolutely Fabulous character was gay - but not the one you think
Absolutely Fabulous creator and star Jennifer Saunders has confirmed that a character from the beloved sitcom is gay - and it's not who we thought!
Charlie Duncan, Pink News, 22nd October 2024'Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out' retrospective coming to Gold
Absolutely Fabulous is being celebrated with a retrospective documentary on Gold, Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out, featuring Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha and Jane Horrocks, original scripts and unseen clips.
British Comedy Guide, 19th June 2024Jennifer Saunders was going to kill off Ab Fab characters until Joanna Lumley stopped her
Joanna Lumley has revealed Jennifer Saunders once tried to kill off their Absolutely Fabulous characters, before she managed to convince her otherwise.
Max Pilley, NME, 6th June 2024Motherland spin-off Amandaland coming to BBC One
Motherland is getting a spin-off, focused on Lucy Punch's character Amanda. Coming to BBC One, Amandaland also features Joanna Lumley and Philippa Dunne.
British Comedy Guide, 18th May 2024Radio 4 announces a raft of new comedy series
Frank Skinner, Catherine Bohart, Randy Feltface, Christian Brighty, Lorna Rose Treen, Jim Smith, Geoff Norcott, Stuart Mitchell, Sunil Patel, Paul Merton and David Sedaris are amongst those who have got BBC Radio 4 series coming up in 2024.
British Comedy Guide, 15th January 2024Comedians offer up artwork for National Doodle Day 2023
Joe Lycett, Aisling Bea, Jake Lambert and Jon Pointing have contributed artwork to the National Doodle Day auction run by Epilepsy Action.
British Comedy Guide, 15th September 2023'Joanna Lumley: My Best Bits - In My Own Words' coming to Channel 5
Joanna Lumley is the subject of a new two-hour Channel 5 documentary in which she reflects upon her acting career, and which also features Ruby Wax, Jane Horrocks, Helen Lederer and Roger Allam.
British Comedy Guide, 5th April 2023Ruby Wax stranded on a tropical island for Channel 5 survival series
Ruby Wax is to be stranded on an uninhabited tropical island in a new Channel 5 survival series, with only cameras to talk to. The comic, who recently came out of a psychiatric institution, has been training in survival skills.
British Comedy Guide, 25th January 2023Conversations From A Long Marriage nestles happily in its 6.30pm comedy slot. It's cosy and gentle and - for me - slightly phoned in by these two great actors. The stories and jokes often revolve around one of them desiring a bit more attention from the other: we've had Joanna wanting Roger to be more physically affectionate, like a lusty couple they know, and Roger being grumpy about Joanna working with a dynamic younger man. Surely most long-term couples are relaxed about such things, while being far spikier about others? Perhaps I'm wrong, and everyone else, apart from me and my husband, is in an exquisite Joanna & the Maestro-style relationship. Whatever, I will always have time for Lumley, who somehow manages to make everything in life, even ludicrous garden bridges, more absolutely fabulous (sorry). There are few people who can do that.
Miranda Sawyer, The Guardian, 21st January 2023