THEY'RE BACK, SWEETIES. Absolutely Fabulous trash the Kardash in the first of 3 new episodes coming in 2012 as the sitcom returns.

I've asked but BBC Worldwide Channels running BBC Entertainment (DStv 120) in South Africa and Africa, doesn't yet know if or when the new series of Absolutely Fabulous specials will be shown here.

A set of new Absolutely Fabulous episodes will start in January in America on the BBC America channel and will most probably be shown in South Africa sometime in 2012 as well. There's 3 new episodes of Absolutely Fabulous as part of the 20th anniversary of the hilarious British sitcom.

Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley both reprise their roles as Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone.

In the clip above - the first teaser - the fashionistas, still going strong in a new decade but wondering about how the world has changed, ponder the phenomenon called ... ''Kardashian''.

''There's a new disease called the Kasdashians, darh-ling,'' says Edina.

''Each one with their own reality show. They're multiplying. Like head lice,'' says a disgusted Patsy as she takes a smoke.