In the TV series what is the Vicar of Dibley's name?
"The Christmas Lunch Incident ""The Christmas Lunch Incident"" is the 1996 Christmas special episode of the British sitcom ""The Vicar of Dibley"". The episode was first broadcast on BBC1 in the United Kingdom on 25 December 1996. It was the eighth episode of ""The Vicar of Dibley"" to be produced and transmitted. Repeats are broadcast regularly around Christmas on both the original channel and more frequently on the UKTV comedy channel Gold. The episode was written by regular writers Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer. The episode depicts the show's central character, Vicar and parish council member Geraldine Granger (Dawn French),"
"The Vicar of Dibley The Vicar of Dibley is a British sitcom which originally ran on BBC One from 10 November 1994 to 22 January 1998 (with three sets of specials in the Winters of 1999/2000, 2004/2005 and 2006/2007). It is set in a fictional small Oxfordshire village called Dibley, which is assigned a female vicar following the 1992 changes in the Church of England that permitted the ordination of women. In ratings terms, it is among the most successful British programme in the digital era, with the various Christmas and New Year specials in 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006 and"
"for its 2007–2008 schedule. The Vicar of Dibley The Vicar of Dibley is a British sitcom which originally ran on BBC One from 10 November 1994 to 22 January 1998 (with three sets of specials in the Winters of 1999/2000, 2004/2005 and 2006/2007). It is set in a fictional small Oxfordshire village called Dibley, which is assigned a female vicar following the 1992 changes in the Church of England that permitted the ordination of women. In ratings terms, it is among the most successful British programme in the digital era, with the various Christmas and New Year specials in 1999,"
"Geraldine Granger Geraldine Kennedy (nee Granger) is a fictional female vicar, the central character to the successful British BBC sitcom ""The Vicar of Dibley"". She is portrayed by Dawn French (who is 8 years older than Granger), described by the British Comedy Guide as ""the jolly, down-to-earth female vicar of Dibley, a small country village inhabited by oddballs. After overcoming the town's initial shock at her gender Geraldine helps to improve the village."" Much of the source of comedy comes from the way French plays the female vicar with her extroverted and fun-loving nature, frequent colourful language, and behaviour as"
"by Owen Newitt. Geraldine Granger Geraldine Kennedy (nee Granger) is a fictional female vicar, the central character to the successful British BBC sitcom ""The Vicar of Dibley"". She is portrayed by Dawn French (who is 8 years older than Granger), described by the British Comedy Guide as ""the jolly, down-to-earth female vicar of Dibley, a small country village inhabited by oddballs. After overcoming the town's initial shock at her gender Geraldine helps to improve the village."" Much of the source of comedy comes from the way French plays the female vicar with her extroverted and fun-loving nature, frequent colourful language,"
"2007 all entering the UK top 10 programmes of the year. ""The Vicar of Dibley"" received multiple British Comedy Awards (including a Best TV Comedy Actress Award for Emma Chambers), two International Emmys, and was a multiple British Academy Television Awards nominee. In 2004, it placed third in a BBC poll of ""Britain's Best Sitcom"". The series also includes six charity special shorts, for Comic Relief, the most recent in 2015. Pam Rhodes, Kylie Minogue, Rachel Hunter, Terry Wogan, Jeremy Paxman, Martyn Lewis, Darcey Bussell and Sean Bean have each appeared as themselves in one episode. Sarah, Duchess of York,"
"Trevor Peacock Trevor Peacock (born 19 May 1931) is an English stage and television character actor and former screenwriter and songwriter. He is best known for playing Jim Trott in the BBC comedy series ""The Vicar of Dibley"", alongside Dawn French. He was born in Tottenham, North London, the son of Alexandria and Victor Peacock. His many television roles include Jim Trott in ""The Vicar of Dibley"", Rouault in ""Madame Bovary"" (opposite Keith Barron), Quilp in ""The Old Curiosity Shop"" and Old Bailey in ""Neverwhere"". He appeared in diverse programmes such as ""EastEnders"" (playing Sid, a war veteran Alfie Moon"
"by Edward Sinclair. The sitcom ""The Vicar of Dibley"", whose title character is among the Church of England's first female vicars, also featured a female verger, the dim-witted but well-intentioned Alice Tinker (Emma Chambers). During the service itself, a verger's main duty is ceremonially to precede the religious participants as they move about the church; he or she does not typically take any speaking part in the service itself. It could be argued that a verger's main pride during a service lies in his or her inconspicuousness; vergers often play a very prominent role ""behind the scenes"" — helping to"
"from natural causes. The proximate cause of death was a heart attack. She was 53 years old. On 26 February 2018, BBC One aired ""The Vicar of Dibley"" January 1998 episode ""Love and Marriage"" in Chambers' memory. In similar vein, on 11 March 2018 (what would have been Chambers' 54th birthday), the Gold channel hosted a ""The Vicar of Dibley"" day in her memory. Emma Chambers Emma Gwynedd Mary Chambers (11 March 1964 – 21 February 2018) was an English actress. She was known for playing the role of Alice Tinker in the BBC comedy ""The Vicar of Dibley"" and"
"her. She starred as Geraldine Granger, a vicar of a small village called Dibley. An audience of 12.3 million watched the final full-length episode to see her character's marriage ceremony. Her last appearance on ""The Vicar of Dibley"" was with Damian Lewis in a mini-episode made for Comic Relief in 2013. She was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Comedy Performance in the last episode of ""The Vicar of Dibley"". Repeats of the show on BBC One still attract millions of viewers and it also retains a following amongst PBS viewers in the United States. French played a major role"
"Richard Ayoade, Orla Brady, Fiona Bruce, Annette Crosbie, Johnny Depp, Ruth Jones, Damian Lewis, Maureen Lipman, Jennifer Saunders, Sting, Stephen Tompkinson and Emma Watson have made guest appearances in shorts made for Comic Relief. The series was created by Richard Curtis and written for actress Dawn French by Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, with contributions from Kit Hesketh-Harvey. The main character was an invention of Richard Curtis, but he and Dawn French extensively consulted Joy Carroll, one of the first Anglican female priests, and garnered many character traits and much information. ""The Vicar of Dibley"" has had 20 episodes, spanning two"
"it as a serious piece of church choral music. It has been released as a charity single with proceeds to Comic Relief. It also appears on Goodall's CD ""Choral Works"", which also includes his theme for another popular comedy, ""Mr. Bean"" - and coincidentally a snippet of The Vicar of Dibley's theme music was used in ""Mr. Bean"" episode Tee Off, Mr. Bean. ""The Vicar of Dibley"" was released in DVD in Region 2 (UK) from 2001. In 2002, a DVD entitled ""The Best of The Vicar of Dibley"" was released featuring a 90-minute film of Dawn French talking to"
"joke to Geraldine; in ""Love and Marriage"" (1998) Geraldine tells the joke to David, as Alice is away on her honeymoon; and in ""Happy New Year"" (2005) the joke is told at the beginning, since the end of the episode focuses on the Make Poverty History campaign. In May 2007, Richard Curtis received a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award for his humanitarian pursuits as well as his creative work including ""The Vicar of Dibley"". Though set in the fictional Oxfordshire village of Dibley (yet some of the villagers, including Alice, Jim and Owen, speak with slight West Country accents), the series"
"only been released on a Comic Relief DVD called ""Now That's What I Call Comedy"", having become difficult to find. In the United States and Canada (Region 1), all episodes have been released on DVD. The seasonal specials are often referred to as ""Series 3"". This is not a series, and was not released as such on VHS or DVD in the UK. In the United States, the four specials were released as ""Series 3"". In February 2016 it was reported that Dawn French was interested in returning to the role as ""The Bishop Of Dibley"", to follow on from"
"location for outdoor scenes in the sitcom ""The Vicar of Dibley"". In the series, the church of St Mary the Virgin was renamed ""St Barnabus"" (""sic""). The music video for the song Apparition by Stealing Sheep was shot in the village. The fourth episode of TV series ""Killing Eve"" was shot in the village. Turville Turville is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Chiltern Hills, west of High Wycombe and north of Henley-on-Thames. The name is Anglo-Saxon in origin and means 'dry field'. It was recorded in the ""Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"" in 796 as ""Thyrefeld""."
"just over two weeks after the death of Mel Smith. The main writers included Colin Bostock-Smith, Andy Hamilton, Peter Brewis, Richard Curtis, and Clive Anderson. However, the producers accepted scripts for sketches from a wide range of writers and ensured the show remained topical by recording sketches only days before broadcast. Howard Goodall (subsequently composer of the ""Red Dwarf"", ""Blackadder"", and ""The Vicar of Dibley"" theme music) was musical director. Bill Wilson directed the first three series, Geoff Posner the fourth. A total of 27 episodes of 25–30 minute duration were produced over four series. The series has rarely been"
"James Fleet James Edward Fleet (born 11 March 1952) is a British actor. He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"" and the dim-witted but kind Hugo Horton in the BBC sitcom television series ""The Vicar of Dibley"". Fleet was born in Bilston, Staffordshire, to a Scottish mother, Christine, and an English father, Jim. He lived in Bilston until he was ten, but when his father died, he moved to Aberdeenshire with his mother. He studied engineering at university in Aberdeen, where he"
"best known for his role in ""The Vicar of Dibley"", said about playing a villain 'I was born for this stuff. It was a huge privilege to be on Team Corrie. I was humbled by the people I worked with. It was quite easy to tap into my inner criminal!' King commented that it was ""fantastic"" to have Gray O'Brien back, saying ""We enjoy working with each other and we have a set way of working together – reading the scripts three times, rehearsing and doing everything in advance. There was a lot of pressure filming these scenes and he"
"as a director include the metaseries ""Harry and Cosh"", ""Morris 2274"", ""Billie: Girl from the Future"" and ""Cavegirl"". His latest sitcom, Marley's Ghosts, revolves around a woman called Marley Wise who finds she can communicate with the dead. The series first aired on Gold in September 2015. He is the son of actor Trevor Peacock (who plays 'Jim Trott' in ""The Vicar of Dibley"") and brother of actor Harry Peacock (a regular ""Star Stories"" satirist). Daniel Peacock Daniel Peacock (born 2 October 1958 in London) is an English actor, writer and director. He has worked with the team of ""The"
"Church of St Columcille. The image of the parish vicar is a popular one in British culture. A popular British television series on BBC depicts a fictional woman vicar humorously in ""The Vicar of Dibley"", and the story of The Vicar of Bray appears as a song and otherwise. Vicar (Anglicanism) Vicar is the title given to certain parish priests in the Church of England. It has played a significant role in Anglican Church organisation in ways that are different from other Christian denominations. The title is very old and arises from the medieval situation where priests were appointed either"
"life in Bilston. James Fleet (born 1954) is a British actor. He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"", and the dim-witted Hugo Horton in the BBC situation comedy television series ""The Vicar of Dibley"". David Daker, born in Bilston in 1935, is a British actor. His best-known roles are in television. He played PC Owen Culshaw in Z-Cars, Jarvis in Porridge, Captain Nathan Spiker in Dick Turpin and Harry Crawford in Boon. Don Powell, drummer in the band Slade, was born in"
"at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in the 1980s, where she was a classmate of actor Ross Kemp. After taking some smaller parts on television productions such as ""The Bill"", in November 1994 Chambers played the role of Charity Pecksniff in the TV serialisation of the Charles Dickens novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"". From 1994 to 2007, she played the role of Alice Tinker in the BBC comedy ""The Vicar of Dibley"". Chambers appeared in all 20 episodes and four Comic Relief specials until 2007. In 1998, Chambers won the British Comedy Award for Best Actress for her performance. Chambers"
"""The Vicar of Dibley"". His first lead role in a TV series came in 2002 when he played Eddie Chisolm alongside Sally Phillips in ""Rescue Me"" written by David Nicholls. His theatre work includes Howard Davies' production of ""All My Sons"" at The National Theatre and his many rep theatre roles include Nick Bottom in David Farrs' ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" and The Prince of Wales in ""The Madness of George III"" at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Wright is perhaps best known to a worldwide audience for his portrayal of PC Mark Mylow in ""Doc Martin"". He has played character"
"the brewmaster who brewed Castle Lager. He died of cancer at his home in London on 18 November 2013, aged 78. """", ""Z-Cars"", ""Rumpole of the Bailey"", ""Danger UXB"",""Yes Prime Minister"", ""Casualty"", ""Shackleton"", ""Longitude"", ""The Vicar of Dibley, Doctor Who"". He appeared in the British soap ""Emmerdale"" playing George Postlethwaite the fictional bishop of Skipdale. In ""Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"", he played a wizard, Elphias Doge, part of the Order of the Phoenix, escorting Harry to Grimmauld Place. Other films include ""Wimbledon"", ""Cry Freedom"", ""Gandhi"" and ""The Fourth Protocol"". Sleuth (Fortune Theatre, West End), Habeas Corpus"
"the producer, Jon Plowman, with clips from the series. A 2002 documentary narrated by Jo Brand, entitled ""The Real Vicars of Dibley"", was also on the DVD. In 2005, a boxset of the ""complete collection"" was released. This included all the then aired episodes and shorts except the 1997 ""BallyKissDibley"" Comic Relief short. The final two episodes and 6-disc ""ultimate"" box set were released on 26 November 2007, neither included the 2007 Comic Relief short or the ""BallyKissDibley"" one. In Australia (Region 4), all episodes have been released on DVD, but the 2007 Comic Relief short episode, ""Wife Swap"", has"
"the 2015 Red Nose Day Special. The idea for a US version of the show came about when two co-stars of the American sitcom ""Frasier"", Jane Leeves and Peri Gilpin, set up their production company Bristol Cities with an American version of ""The Vicar of Dibley"" as their first project. On 6 February 2007, Fox announced plans to adapt ""The Vicar of Dibley"" into an American sitcom, titled ""The Minister of Divine"". The series starred Kirstie Alley as a former ""Wild Child"" who returned to her hometown as its first female minister. The series was not picked up by Fox"
"middle-aged vicar, Unwin moonlights as a secret agent for BISHOP (an acronym of ""British Intelligence Service Headquarters, Operation Priest""), a top-secret division of British Intelligence based in Whitehall. He answers to his London-based superior, ""The Bishop"". Unwin is stationed at his vicarage with Matthew Harding, another agent, who—when not assisting the Father on missions—adopts the manner of a simple gardener and verger. Supporting characters include Blake, a junior BISHOP operative, and Mrs Appleby, the Father's ageing housekeeper, who is unaware of Unwin and Harding's involvement with British Intelligence. Prior to the events of the series, the pioneering scientist Professor Humbert"
"Dawn French Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, writer, comedian and presenter from Holyhead, Wales. She is best known for starring in and writing for the BBC comedy sketch show ""French and Saunders"" with comedy partner Jennifer Saunders and for playing the lead role as Geraldine Granger in the BBC sitcom ""The Vicar of Dibley"". French has been nominated for seven BAFTA TV Awards and also won a BAFTA Fellowship with Jennifer Saunders. French was born in Holyhead, to English parents Denys Vernon French (5 August 1932 – 11 September 1977) and Felicity Roma French"
"series, both are still teenagers. The TV Wycliffe was an accomplished jazz pianist (as Jack Shepherd is in real life). Charles Wycliffe Charles Wycliffe is a fictional English detective superintendent, created by author W. J. Burley. He featured in twenty-two novels. (Burley died when the twenty-third was still unfinished). D/Supt Wycliffe is the head of the CID (plain-clothes detective branch of the police) in Devon and Cornwall. As such, he takes charge of all investigations of serious crime. Although Wycliffe is not a native Cornishman (his family were market gardeners in Shropshire) and he is advised that the outlook and"
"District, French played a tourist information officer who falls in love with an alien. She also appeared in the BBC sitcom ""Wild West"", with Catherine Tate, in which she played a woman living in Cornwall who is a lesbian, more through lack of choice than any specific natural urge. This series did not meet with as much success as her earlier roles and it ended in 2004 after two years. French's biggest solo television role to date has been as the title figure in the long running and popular BBC comedy ""The Vicar of Dibley"", which Richard Curtis created for"
"vicar would cause a negative response from viewers. Alex Healy (EastEnders) The Reverend Alex Healy is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"", played by Richard Driscoll between 31 March 1997 and 23 August 1999. Alex arrives in Walford in March 1997 as the local vicar. He runs a homeless shelter called Bridge House with the help of Christian follower Sarah Hills (Daniela Denby-Ashe), despite protests from many of the residents in Walford. Alex falls in love with Kathy Mitchell (Gillian Taylforth) while her marriage to Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) has begun to crumble. Alex and Kathy break"
"Emma Chambers Emma Gwynedd Mary Chambers (11 March 1964 – 21 February 2018) was an English actress. She was known for playing the role of Alice Tinker in the BBC comedy ""The Vicar of Dibley"" and Honey Thacker in the film ""Notting Hill"" (1999). Chambers was born on 11 March 1964, in Doncaster, the daughter of John Chambers, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, and his wife Noelle, ""née"" Strange. Her siblings are business owners (created Storm Model Management) Sarah and Simon. She attended St. Mary's School and her secondary education was at St Swithun's School, Winchester, Hampshire. She then trained"
"an anti-hero who helps the Winchesters against the threat of Leviathans led by Dick Roman, after they are released from Purgatory by Castiel. Crowley becomes the main antagonist of season 8, attempting to harness the Words of God and their powers and stop the Winchesters from sealing Hell forever. In season 9, Crowley becomes an unwilling prisoner of the Winchesters but is forced to deal with Abaddon trying to steal his position as King of Hell. Sheppard was promoted to series regular status for season 10. Season 7 introduces Kevin Tran the prophet (played by Osric Chau), who translates the"