Queen Of The East

Here’s something incongruous. It’s a trailer for a show that you won’t believe isn’t a movie parody by French and Saunders. Queen Of The East was one of three films that aired in the Heroes and Villains season, and it seems to have dropped off of Jennifer Saunders’ filmography.

The other two installments starred Rowan Atkinson as Sir Henry ‘Tim’ Birkin, and Jim Broadbent as Colonel A.D. Wintle.

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