Vicar of Dibley takes the knee in hard-hitting sketch marking Black Lives Matter

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The Vicar of Dibley is set to address the Black Lives Matter movement in one of the upcoming festive special short episodes.

Dawn French has already popped her dog collar back on to record three special 10 minute episodes of the iconic TV comedy, returning to her role as Reverend Geraldine Kennedy.

And in one of the upcoming sketches, viewers will see the Vicar take the knee to pay tribute to black lives and to address the death of George Floyd at the hands of American police earlier this year – an act that sparked anger and demonstrations around the world in May.

The sketch is said to see Geraldine emerge from lockdown to take in some fresh air in the fictional village of Dibley in Oxfordshire.



Dawn French’s Reverend Geraldine Kennedy will take the knee during a new scene of The Vicar of Dibley

The Mail on Sunday claims the scene will see the vicar address “this Black Lives Matter thing”, saying: “I don’t think it matters where you’re from. I think it matters that you do something about it because Jesus would, wouldn’t he?”

The character continues: “Until all lives matter the same, we are doing something very wrong.

“We need to focus on justice for a huge chunk of our countrymen and women who seem to have a very bad, weird deal from the day they’re born.”



The much loved BBC comedy will address the Black Lives Matter movement in a new scene

She is then seen taking down two old posters, and replacing them with a home made “Black Lives Matter” poster.

The character is said to say: “I think that in Dibley perhaps we should think about taking down some of these old notices like this and that and perhaps we should put up one like this instead.”

Three special 10-minute episodes of the Vicar of Dibley have been filmed to be tagged on to the end of old episodes that are set to be repeated on the BBC in the run up to Christmas.



Three new 10 minute episodes are set to air in the run up to Christmas

The three episodes are then due to be cut into one 30-minute episode which will also air over the festive season.

Written by co-creators Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, the new episodes are due to include classic Dibley characters, with Geraldine giving zoom sermons.

A tribute to Emma Chambers, who played Alice Tinker but sadly died in February 2018, is also included in the special episodes.

Originally from https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/vicar-dibley-mark-black-lives-23122469

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