Jennifer Saunders to star in BBC1’s Wodehouse comedy
Jennifer Saunders and Timothy Spall are to star in a new BBC1 comedy called Blandings, based on the stories by PG Wodehouse.
The six-part series is being made by Mammoth Screen and written by Guy Andrews, who penned Lost in Austen for ITV.
BBC1 controller Danny Cohen said: “PG Wodehouse was a comic master, and we are very excited about bringing his stories to life for a new generation of television viewers. I’m sure that the equally brilliant Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders will do justice to Wodehouse’s world.”
Andrews added: “For any writer, it is the rarest privilege imaginable to have Wodehouse legitimately available as source material. Instead of just stealing from him as we usually do.”
The series will be directed by Paul Seed.
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