Category Archives: Dawn French

THE first day of 2007 may already have seen the highest rated TV show of the year.
Dawn French’s farewell as The Vicar of Dibley last night attracted a massive 12.3 million viewers.
That’s just 200,000 less than the highest rated non-sporting programme of 2006 – an episode of Coronation Street last March.
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DAWN French spent four weeks talking to some of the funniest women in Britain and America.
The result is Dawn French’s Girls Who Do Comedy, a three-part series which starts on BBC1 at 10.15pm a week tomorrow.
It begins with a dazzling number of talking heads but develops into something rather interesting and, at times, revealing.
The series is dedicated to comedienne and broadcaster Linda Smith, who was interviewed before her death from ovarian cancer in February at the age of 48.
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