Feminine punk band present by Happy Valley’s Sally Wainwright coming to BBC
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new sequence from Happy Valley creator Sally Wainwright will see a “celebration of women of a certain age” as they type a punk rock band.
Screenwriter Wainwright, 60, ended her BBC crime drama about no-nonsense West Yorkshire police sergeant Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) earlier this 12 months to vital acclaim after three sequence.
Her not too long ago commissioned BBC drama, Hot Flush, was introduced on Thursday together with three different new exhibits from the broadcaster because the Edinburgh TV competition entered its second day.
The sequence follows 5 ladies dealing with work, grown-up youngsters, dependent dad and mom, husbands and the menopause.
Set in Hebden Bridge, the place a lot of Happy Valley was filmed, the six-part sequence will comply with the ladies as they create a band with a view to enter a expertise contest.
Wainwright, additionally identified for Gentleman Jack and Last Tango In Halifax, mentioned: “I’ve been wanting to write a series like this for a long time. It’s a celebration of women of a certain age, and all the life stuff they suddenly find themselves negotiating/dealing with.
“The show is also my own personal homage to (musical drama) Rock Follies Of ’77, and the feisty (band from the show) Little Ladies who woke me up to what I wanted to do with my life when I was 13.”
Executive producer Roanna Benn, from Drama Republic, described the present as “about the women who hold up modern Britain, their stories urgently need to be told, and who better than Sally Wainwright to do that”.
Also coming to the BBC is a four-part thriller a few Lancashire rookie detective, performed by Victoria star Jenna Coleman, who seems to be right into a podcast journalist investigating lacking individuals, a fireplace at a vacation dwelling and a person having a relationship with underage ladies.
The Jetty creator and author Cat Jones, who has labored on EastEnders and Harlots, mentioned: “What feels like a total dream team continues to grow with the addition of Marialy Rivas to direct and the brilliant Jenna Coleman.
“I’ve no doubt audiences are going to be completely transfixed by her as (detective) Ember (Manning).”
Also among the many BBC commissions is a brand new detective sequence, based mostly on AA Dhand’s Bradford-based crime novels and starring The Great actor Sacha Dhawan, known as Virdee.
A six-part thriller thriller a few self-made businesswoman from the author of Bafta-winning Mood, Nicole Lecky, was additionally introduced as an untitled sequence.
Aside from the news exhibits, incapacity rights activist and Silent Witness star Liz Carr, who has beforehand spoken of her considerations about assisted dying will discover the difficulty in new documentary Better Off Dead?
Carr, additionally identified for The Witcher and This Is Going To Hurt, mentioned: “I’m pro-choice, an atheist, a rights campaigner and assisted suicide scares me.
“I want everyone to have a good death and through this documentary, I hope to show why I’m unconvinced that any type of ‘assisted dying’ is the answer to this.”
Comedy thriller Black Ops, created by Bafta-winning actor and author Gbemisola Ikumelo, has additionally been recommissioned for a second sequence.