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The Vicar Of Dibley. Geraldine Grainger (Dawn French). Copyright: Tiger Aspect Productions
The Vicar Of Dibley

The Vicar Of Dibley

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 1994 - 2020
  • 20 episodes (3 series)

Comedy about a small, backward rural village and its female vicar, Geraldine Grainger. Stars Dawn French, Emma Chambers, Gary Waldhorn, James Fleet, John Bluthal and more.

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BBC Four to repeat comedy classics

To link in with the celebrations of 100 years of the BBC, from Saturday 22nd October BBC Four will begin broadcasting classic episodes of sitcoms and sketch shows.

British Comedy Guide, 14th October 2022

Vicar Of Dibley cottage up for sale in Turville for £900k

Vicar Of Dibley fans will be able to live in the cottage which featured in the much-loved BBC TV series.

The beautiful cottage in the village of Turville, Buckinghamshire, is on the market with estate agents Savills for a guide price of £900,000.

Isabella Perrin, Bucks Free Press, 22nd September 2022

Where are the new classic sitcoms?

When The One Show recently ran a poll to find the best-loved BBC shows ever, half of the top programmes were sitcoms - but none was launched within the last 15 years. So where are the future classics?

Ian Youngs, BBC, 14th May 2022

Only Fools And Horses voted favourite ever BBC show

Half of the best-loved BBC programmes of all time are comedies, a new poll has found. Only Fools And Horses topped the survey of viewers of The One Show to mark the Corporation's 100th birthday.

Chortle, 29th January 2022

Six of UKTV's top ten shows now originals

Dave's Meet The Richardsons and Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable were among the top ten.

Jon Creamer, Televisual, 14th January 2022

10 best British comedy Christmas specials, according to IMDb

Fans of British comedies eagerly await their favorite show's Christmas specials. These are the 10 best according to IMDb ratings.

Dalton Norman, Screen Rant, 18th December 2021

The Sleeping Girl of Turville

Turville in Buckinghamshire is the stereotypically pretty English village, appearing as Dibley in The Vicar Of Dibley.

Country Life, 23rd November 2021

BBC slammed for Vicar Of Dibley offence warnings

Viewers are told on iPlayer that the classic comedy, starring Dawn French as vicar Geraldine Granger, "contains discriminatory language".

Amir Razavi, The Sun, 5th September 2021

How Parkinson's disease sent me from Dibley to dribbly

Univeristy Challenge host Jeremy Paxman has been in touch with top comedy writer and producer Paul Mayhew-Archer MBE, after revealing that he has Parkinson's disease.

Paul, 68, who used to be a co-writer for The Vicar Of Dibley and script-edited a string of other hit sitcoms, was diagnosed with the condition a decade ago, and he has used humour to raise awareness of Parkinson's.

Paul Mayhew-Archer, The Sun, 29th May 2021

'The Vicar Of Dibley: Inside Out' tribute documentary to air on Gold

Gold is to broadcast a two-hour documentary celebrating hit sitcom The Vicar Of Dibley, with all its surviving key stars and creatives taking part.

British Comedy Guide, 14th January 2021

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