{"id":182395,"date":"2025-12-13T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/182395\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T20:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:58:08","slug":"joanna-lumley-and-jennifer-saunders-reunite-in-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/182395\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders reunite in new\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/joanna-lumley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joanna Lumley<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/jennifer-saunders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jennifer Saunders<\/a> will reunite on-screen in the upcoming Amandaland Christmas special, as shown in a new trailer.<\/p>\n<p>The comedy double act, who both won Baftas for their roles in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/absolutely-fabulous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Absolutely Fabulous<\/a>, will feature in a festive episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/motherland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Motherland<\/a> spin-off airing on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>Lumley is reprising her role as Amanda\u2019s (Lucy Punch) mother Felicity, while Saunders will play new character Joan, Felicity\u2019s sister who is hosting the gang for the big day.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Good Housekeeping earlier this month about their reunion, Lumley said it was \u201cpretty special\u201d to have Saunders in the show. \u201cWe were playing characters as far from Edina and Patsy as can be imagined,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders will reunite on-screen in the upcoming Amandaland Christmas special, as shown in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[251,784,156,788,782,111,43,785,783,786,139,69,787,437,255],"class_list":["post-182395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-breaking-news","tag-daily-news","tag-entertainment","tag-global-news","tag-inkl","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-news-app","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-today","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-today-news","tag-tv","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}