his association with comedians dawn french and jennifer saunders from directing their sketch show led to him working on individual projects from each of them during the 1990s. with french he worked on the macabre comedy anthology series "murder most horrid", with some episodes written by moffat (such as "overkill"). more famously, with saunders, he helmed "absolutely fabulous" throughout the decade, the show having originated in a sketch from an episode of "french and saunders" which had also been directed by spiers. "absolutely fabulous" won spiers his second bafta award.