A decade after their last on-screen collaboration, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are reuniting for a Christmas special of their classic sketch series French & Saunders.

The new episode, speculated to be BBC 1's major Christmas Day TV event this year, will help celebrate 30 years since the iconic comedy collaborators first appeared together on television. Over the course of seven series, the pair spoofed films including The Silence of the Lambs, Misery and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? and introduced characters including the Dirty Old Men and the Bananarama-esque pop group Lananeeneenoonoo.