Absolutely Fabulous film to be set on French Riviera

Jennifer Saunders has revealed the forthcoming Absolutely Fabulous movie will be set on the French Riviera. Speaking to New York magazine , Saunders confirmed plans for a big-screen outing for Ab Fab's ageing miscreants were well underway following the return of the show to UK TV over the festive season. "Yes, I'm definitely going to do it," she said. "I'm aiming to shoot this in a beautiful part of the Riviera. I fancy the south of France in the spring." Saunders told the Times earlier this year that the Ab Fab movie might see PR agent Edina Monsoon and her chain-smoking best friend, Patsy Stone, waking up in the middle of the ocean on an oligarch's yacht following a party that everyone else has long since departed. A Mediterranean setting would appear to fit such a scenario. Saunders returned as Edina, alongside Joanna Lumley as Patsy, in a BBC1 Christmas Day special in which the latter was forced to collect her lucrative pension for the first time (revealing her supposed advanced age) in order to pay off her spiralling drug debts. A second special is due to air on New Year's Day, with a third following some time in the new year.