{"id":91895,"date":"2023-10-15T01:32:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T08:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91895"},"modified":"2023-10-15T01:32:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T08:32:07","slug":"more-abfab-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/10\/15\/more-abfab-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"More AbFab Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Didya know we have <strong>Dawn French <\/strong>to thank for the <strong><em>Absolutely Fabulous<\/em><\/strong> film?&nbsp; She made a bet with her comedy partner, <strong>Jennifer Saunders<\/strong>, on a live <em>BBC <\/em>radio show.&nbsp; Jennifer was procrastinating writing the film.&nbsp; Dawn, tired of hearing these promises, said, \u201cIf you haven\u2019t written it by this time next Christmas, you will owe me a hundred thousand pounds.&nbsp; By this time next year, or you owe me a hundred grand.\u201d&nbsp; Bing, bang, boom \u2013 the script was written.&nbsp; French has worked her magic again.&nbsp; On the <strong><em>French &amp; Saunders <\/em><\/strong>podcast <strong><em>Titting About<\/em><\/strong>, they recounted the old bet (which they say was for 10 grand \u2013 but you can hear the original on <strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong>).&nbsp; Jennifer now says, \u201cI need to write a film or a series based on <em>AbFab<\/em>\u2026I want to do something related.\u201d&nbsp; Dawn made Saunders promise to write \u201ca serious first draft of a film related to <em>AbFab <\/em>by the 31<sup>st<\/sup> of December.\u201d&nbsp; Jennifer then walked over to Dawn and shook hands.&nbsp; French triumphantly exclaimed, \u201cThere\u2019s a deal for a new <em>AbFab <\/em>product.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didya know we have Dawn French to thank for the Absolutely Fabulous film?&nbsp; She made a bet with her comedy partner, Jennifer Saunders, on a live BBC radio show.&nbsp; Jennifer was procrastinating writing the film.&nbsp; Dawn, tired of hearing these promises, said, \u201cIf you haven\u2019t written it by this time next Christmas, you will owe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91896,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91895\/revisions\/91896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}