Julia Sawalha

Absolutely 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!

The Masked Singer's Bubble Tea is unveiled as Ab Fab's Julia Sawalha

Julia Sawalha was unveiled as Bubble Tea during Saturday's episode of The Masked Singer UK. The moment left guest panellist Jennifer Saunders - who was standing in for Rita Ora - stunned as she had no idea Julia was behind the mask.

Jump the shark: Jonathan Creek

Alan Davies solved improbable crimes with wit and flair. Before, erm, getting a job in advertising.

June Whitfield: Absolutely Fabulous cast attend funeral

Dame June Whitfield's funeral has been held in West Sussex, with many of her friends and co-stars in attendance.

20 facts for Jonathan Creek's 20th anniversary

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first time that David Renwick's ingenious creation first hit our screens. To celebrate, here's a look at 20 things you may not know about everyone's favourite tousle-haired, windmill-dwelling amateur sleuth.

A hen-tastic animated spoof of The Great Escape by the Wallace & Gromit team. It's set on Tweedys' prison camp-cum-egg farm, where the chickens plot a soaring escape over the barbed wire. Mel Gibson voices Rocky the Rooster, but the rich tone - two parts hilarity to one pathos - is set by splendid Brit comics such as Jane Horrocks, Julia Sawalha and Timothy Spall.

5 ways to make 'Jonathan Creek' good again

Here's how it can, maybe, hopefully, get its magic back...

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie - review

Producers did not release the Ab Fab film to the critics ahead of its release yesterday, which is rarely a vote of confidence. Add to that the fact that it's a big-screen adaptation of a sitcom - a genre with a patchy track record, The Inbetweeners Movie notwithstanding - and that it uses the tired and tested plot device of plonking their characters somewhere foreign, and the signs are not encouraging. Yet despite such portents, Absolutely Fabulous is as much of a fun, raucous romp as fans would have hoped for - director Mandie Fletcher throwing proceedings into the preposterous story and high camp with as much vigour now as there was when the series started a rather incredible 24 years ago.