NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (UPI) — The Vicar of Dibley icon Dawn French — one half of the comedy duo French and Saunders — is back on television Thursday with the hilarious new series, Can You Keep a Secret?
Streaming on Paramount+, the show stars French as Debbie, a lower middle-class woman who doesn’t try too hard to correct the life insurance company that mistakenly declares her husband William (Mark Heap) dead and issues a huge payout to her family.
Problem is, William, a loner who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, is actually still alive, so Debbie throws a funeral for him, then keeps him hidden in their loft, only telling their horrified son Harold (Craig Roberts) the truth months into the scheme.
The sitcom was created by Simon Mayhew-Archer, the son of Dibley scribe Paul Mayhew-Archer, who lives with Parkinson’s in real life and served as an adviser on Can You Keep a Secret?