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.
- Series 2, Episode 1 repeated at 7:05pm on Gold
Streaming rank this week: 213
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British Comedy Guide, 27th December 2020Dawn French blagged £17,000 Concorde tickets
Dawn French once bagged £17,000 of Concorde tickets by dressing up as a priest as she cashed in on her Vicar Of Dibley fame.
She revealed British Airways gave her the gift for posing as her character, Geraldine Granger, at a leaving party for a member of their cabin crew.
Clemmie Moodie, The Sun, 27th December 2020Dawn French interview
Dawn French on her latest book, playing Beatrix Potter and bringing back The Vicar Of Dibley for Christmas
Miranda Sawyer, Radio Times, 19th December 2020Dibley viewers 'in tears' over Emma Chambers tribute
The Vicar Of Dibley viewers were left in "floods of tears" after Dawn French paid an emotional tribute to her late co-star Emma Chambers.
Isobel Lewis, The Independent, 15th December 2020Dawn French wasn't the first choice for Dibley
The hit 90s comedy recently returned to the BBC for a series of lockdown specials and producer Peter Bennett-Jones has opened up on some behind-the-scenes secrets, revealing that Richard Curtis never actually wrote the role of Geraldine Grainger for Dawn.
Rebecca Lewis, The Sun, 14th December 2020The Vicar Of Dibley in Lockdown, review
Did the Vicar taking a knee warrant such pearl-clutching?
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 14th December 2020The Vicar Of Dibley In Lockdown review
Glib tidings are dispensed in wearying abundance by The Vicar Of Dibley In Lockdown, a painfully unfunny series of seasonal sermons from Dawn French's once revered altar ego. Everything about the venture smacks of piety and schmaltz, the very qualities the original sitcom endeavoured to lampoon. In a curious way, however, these prissy monologues are state-of-the-art light entertainment.
Liam Fay, The Times, 12th December 2020The Vicar Of Dibley In Lockdown review
Zoom but no zest in this comedy resurrection.
Carol Midgley, The Times, 8th December 2020Review: The Vicar Of Dibley In Lockdown
Old jokes might not always be the best but they're the ones we love most. That's what makes it such a pleasure to see Dawn French back as the Rev Geraldine Granger in The Vicar Of Dibley In Lockdown (BBC1).
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 8th December 2020