A stellar Christmas Special

Dawn French will be back with Jennifer Saunders this Christmas in a BBC1 Christmas Special that promises ho-ho-homages to 'Star Wars' and Melanie C. The show will be broadcast in BBC1 on Monday 27 December and the pair will be seen again in an epic trailer for the jewels of BBC comedy, to be premiered on Christmas Day.

Last year the contessas of comedy paid tribute to 'Titanic' with French & Saunders as Jack and Rose and Ade Edmondson as a manic James Cameron (or should that be Macaroon?).