By . Deni Kirkova . PUBLISHED: . 13:31 EST, 25 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:31 EST, 25 January 2013 . 'Is champers all right with you, Pats?', 'Lovely darling.' The unmistakeably posh lexicon of hit TV series Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is set to return to screens as soon as next year, in the form of a feature film, it has been revealed. The woman behind lead character Patsy Stone - a botox, champagne and drug addicted magazine editor - has confirmed an Ab Fab movie is on the way. Champers sweetie? Patsy is a botox-addict magazine editor while Edina is a PR desperate to stay hip . Joanna Lumley, 66, confirming the news reported in the Mail last year that a film was in the pipeline, told the Telegraph: 'We've talked about it, Jennifer . [Saunders] is writing the film. 'Although . yesterday the press were saying it's a musical now! But whatever it is, . I'll be there.' She also said while she's alive . no-one but her will play Patsy, even if that means brushing up on her . all but non-existent singing and dancing skills. Absolutely Fabulous: Joanna with her winning gong at the National Television Awards last night and right, as her smoking, doping, promiscuous fashionista alter-ego Patsy . ‘Nobody's going to play Patsy when I'm . alive! I do mean that, I do mean that darling, because it could get . savage, I'm still quite strong,' ‘I'll learn it, I'll learn it. I'll learn to sing and dance. Don't throw me out,' she said. Absolutely Fabulous is written by . Saunders, who also plays leading character Edina Monsoon, a drug and . drink abusing PR, always after the latest fad and desperate to stay . young, hip and relevant. The hit comedy, which launched in the early 1990s, also stars Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks. Jennifer Saunders' character Edina is reliant upon the support of her daughter, Saffron, who is still at school, despite being a middle-aged, twice-divorced working woman. Edwina 'Eddy' Monsoon: Jennifer Saunders in character . She told the Mail in April: 'I’ve said it now so I’m going to have to do it, aren’t I?’ ‘If I do it for no other . reason,’ she says, shaking with laughter, ‘I’ll do it so Joanna and I – . as Patsy and Eddy – can walk the red carpet. Wouldn’t that be a dream?’ she told the Mail in April. 'Eddy and Patsy are looking for what they imagine glamorous life should be. They're constantly searching for that perfect place to sit or that perfect pair of sunglasses. 'It's Shangri-La and it just might be round the next corner. In the meantime, they decide to take Saffy's (Julia Sawalha) daughter off her - she calls her Jane, I call her Lola - but then they lose her.' ‘I adore being Edina. It’s a total . escape. If I think of Edina now, I can’t help smiling. She’s so scatty. 'When I’m Eddy and Joanna’s Patsy, there’s no happier place to be. It . must be for us like meditation is for other people.' The series ended in 2005 but returned . after six years for just three special episodes, one at Christmas in . 2011, one for new year and one in July 2012 - to mark the show's 20th . anniversary and celebrate the London Olympics. Now . that Saunders has finished working on the stage musical Viva Forever!, . featuring the songs of the Spice Girls à la Mamma Mia!, she can . concentrate on the Ab Fab project and she hopes to release the film in time for the 2014 Oscars.
Absolutely Fabulous film due out 'in time for 2014 Oscars'
Lumley hints that it's now going to be a musical .
She says that, while she's no professional singer or dancer, she'll 'learn it', and no-one else will play Patsy 'while she's still alive'
By . Deni Kirkova . PUBLISHED: . 13:31 EST, 25 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:31 EST, 25 January 2013 . 'Is champers all right with you, Pats?', 'Lovely darling.' The unmistakeably posh lexicon of hit TV series Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is set to return to screens as soon as next year, in the form of a feature film, it has been revealed. The woman behind lead character Patsy Stone - a botox, champagne and drug addicted magazine editor - has confirmed an Ab Fab movie is on the way. Champers sweetie? Patsy is a botox-addict magazine editor while Edina is a PR desperate to stay hip . Joanna Lumley, 66, confirming the news reported in the Mail last year that a film was in the pipeline, told the Telegraph: 'We've talked about it, Jennifer . [Saunders] is writing the film. 'Although . yesterday the press were saying it's a musical now! But whatever it is, . I'll be there.' She also said while she's alive . no-one but her will play Patsy, even if that means brushing up on her . all but non-existent singing and dancing skills. Absolutely Fabulous: Joanna with her winning gong at the National Television Awards last night and right, as her smoking, doping, promiscuous fashionista alter-ego Patsy . ‘Nobody's going to play Patsy when I'm . alive! I do mean that, I do mean that darling, because it could get . savage, I'm still quite strong,' ‘I'll learn it, I'll learn it. I'll learn to sing and dance. Don't throw me out,' she said. Absolutely Fabulous is written by . Saunders, who also plays leading character Edina Monsoon, a drug and . drink abusing PR, always after the latest fad and desperate to stay . young, hip and relevant. The hit comedy, which launched in the early 1990s, also stars Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks. Jennifer Saunders' character Edina is reliant upon the support of her daughter, Saffron, who is still at school, despite being a middle-aged, twice-divorced working woman. Edwina 'Eddy' Monsoon: Jennifer Saunders in character . She told the Mail in April: 'I’ve said it now so I’m going to have to do it, aren’t I?’ ‘If I do it for no other . reason,’ she says, shaking with laughter, ‘I’ll do it so Joanna and I – . as Patsy and Eddy – can walk the red carpet. Wouldn’t that be a dream?’ she told the Mail in April. 'Eddy and Patsy are looking for what they imagine glamorous life should be. They're constantly searching for that perfect place to sit or that perfect pair of sunglasses. 'It's Shangri-La and it just might be round the next corner. In the meantime, they decide to take Saffy's (Julia Sawalha) daughter off her - she calls her Jane, I call her Lola - but then they lose her.' ‘I adore being Edina. It’s a total . escape. If I think of Edina now, I can’t help smiling. She’s so scatty. 'When I’m Eddy and Joanna’s Patsy, there’s no happier place to be. It . must be for us like meditation is for other people.' The series ended in 2005 but returned . after six years for just three special episodes, one at Christmas in . 2011, one for new year and one in July 2012 - to mark the show's 20th . anniversary and celebrate the London Olympics. Now . that Saunders has finished working on the stage musical Viva Forever!, . featuring the songs of the Spice Girls à la Mamma Mia!, she can . concentrate on the Ab Fab project and she hopes to release the film in time for the 2014 Oscars.
a musical now! But whatever it is, . I'll be there.' She also said while she's alive . no-one but her will play Patsy, even if that means and dancing skills. Absolutely Fabulous: Joanna ‘I'll learn it, I'll learn it. I'll learn to sing and she hopes to release the film in time for the 2014 Oscars.