The Vicar of Dibley [SEP] cast member
and New Year specials in 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 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
"Relief" sketches are produced by the cast and crew of the actual programs being parodied, and hence appear to be "normal" episodes. A good example of this is the sketch, "BallyKissDibley", an 11-minute piece in which the leads of "Ballykissangel" appeared on the sets of "The Vicar of Dibley", alongside most of "Dibley"s cast. Since the sketch derived its humor from all actors remaining in character, the extent to which these parodies "count" as part of either show's canon