What was the name of that sitcom that starred Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax and another woman..?

Girls On Top

Starring Dawn French

Joan Greenwood

Tracey Ullman

Jennifer Saunders

Ruby Wax

The show focused around four female flatmates and their landlady. The characters were broadly painted stereotypes with very little depth and the comedy focused entirely around the conflicts arising from their personalities. In many ways the show can be seen as an (unsuccessful) attempt at creating an all-female version of the alternative sitcom The Young Ones, two series of which had appeared in 1982 and 1984. Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders had both made cameo appearances in this earlier show and, like most of its stars, were members of The Comic Strip group. Saunders was also married to Ade Edmondson, one of the "Young Ones".

Characters

Amanda Ripley (Dawn French), a radical feminist who is strait-laced, anti-male and extremely liberal; also the character around whom the entire series was based. Like Shelley, she can also take her efforts too far when she has something to prove. Amanda tries to hide her fascination for men.

Jennifer Marsh (Jennifer Saunders), an extremely mousy and child-like woman who serves as the whipping post for everyone else.

Shelley DuPont (Ruby Wax), a struggling actress and the British stereotype of a gaudily dressed, rude, loud-mouthed American.

Candice Valentine (Tracey Ullman), a promiscuous, lazy, manipulative gold digger.

Lady Chloe Carlton (Joan Greenwood), an eccentric elderly romance novelist and the landlady.

Others seen in cameo roles in Girls On Top included Helen Lederer, Pauline Melville, Helen Atkinson Wood, Mark Arden, Stephen Frost, Robbie Coltrane, Harry Enfield, Hugh Laurie, Pauline Quirke, John Sessions and Arthur Smith plus the Beverley Sisters and visiting American Soap star Katherine Helmond, who appeared once as Shelley's mother.

Synopsis

The first episode had Amanda struggling to find a flat and managing to procure one (that she cannot afford) from Lady Carlton. The former resident, Candice, convinces Amanda to let her stay until Wednesday because she has nowhere to go. Then Jennifer, Amanda's childhood friend, arrives unexpectedly with nowhere to go. Eventually Shelley is recruited to move in because none of the others can afford to cover the rent and deposit.

Each episode inevitably centered around the fact that Shelley could order the others around because they all relied on her to get the rent paid; usually the show also incorporated Candice's latest fabrication about some invented fatal illness, or any other reason she could invent to not have to pay the rent. One episode even had Candice convincing everyone she was dating Prince Andrew while another found her tricking Shelley into participating in an adult movie.

Ullman left the show after the first series and a variety of guests fleshed out the second series. Two DVD boxed sets were released featuring all 12 aired episodes plus one that was unaired. Many fans of the show were disappointed that they had very bad sound quality and deleted content.

Ruby Wax, Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French all wrote Girls on Top.

Crew

Dawn French - Writer

Jennifer Saunders - Writer

Ruby Wax - Writer

Ben Elton - Script Editor

Paul Jackson - Director (series 1)

Ed Bye - Director (series 2)

Allan McKeown - Executive Producer

Paul Jackson - Producer

It was Girls on top. I remember watching it.

yeah it was girls on top, it was brilliant, well from what i can remember anyway, i was about 10 or so when it was on telly

are you talking about Absolutely Fabulous?

ab fab ? dawn wasnt really in that

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915375/

girls on top http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088524/

i'm not sure , , . , ., . , . ,. , but if dawn french was in it it is unlikely to have been funny , innit

girls on top i think

i gotta say it was girls on top absolutely loved it. it was so funny!!!!!! ha ha ha ha ha

was it girls on top?

DUNNO BUT I WANNA WATCH IT!