Girl Friday (TV series)
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''Girl Friday'' is a 1994
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. Lumley wrote an accompanying book, also called ''Girl Friday'', which was published by BBC Books. The title is based on the idiom derived from ''Friday'', a character in ''
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Tsarabanjina

The programme was filmed on the Malagasy island of
Tsarabanjina Nosy Tsarabanjina is a small island off the northwest coast of Madagascar in the Mitsio archipelago, situated near Nosy Be and Nosy Mitsio. It received a small amount of fame in 1994 when BBC Reality TV programme Girl Friday featured Joanna ...
, off the northwest coast of Madagascar. Uninhabited at the time of broadcast, the island has since been partially developed into a luxury resort.


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BBC Genome, archive of the original TV listing

BBC Programme website
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