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Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders join BBC One's comedy 'Blandings'
Published Thursday, Feb 2 2012, 13:19 GMT | By Catriona Wightman | Add comment
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The six-part series is based on the work of PG Wodehouse, who wrote several stories about a fictional estate called Blandings Castle.
Spall has signed up to play Lord Clarence Emsworth, the master of the Castle, while Saunders will star as his sister Connie.
Guy Andrews, who will write and appear in the show, described Blandings Castle as "dysfunction junction, the home of a chaotic family struggling to keep itself in order".
"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," he joked.
Saunders is currently working on a movie adaptation of her hit comedy Absolutely Fabulous, while Spall recently filmed a guest spot for Sky1's upcoming drama Sinbad.
Blandings, which is set in 1929, will be filmed in Northern Ireland.
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