BritBox announced today the premiere date for Riot Women, a star-studded new drama series from multi-BAFTA Award winner Sally Wainwright. Check out the trailer.
Set and filmed in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, Riot Women follows five menopausal women — a teacher, a police officer, a pub landlady, a midwife, and a shoplifting freeloader — who form a punk rock band to take part in a local talent contest. In the process, they find that they have a lot more to shout about than they ever imagined. And as they become closer, the teacher, Beth, and the freeloader, Kitty, discover a surprising, heartbreaking connection.
Leading the cast are series stars Joanna Scanlan (No Offence, The Thick of It) as Beth, Rosalie Craig (Moonflower Murders, The Serpent Queen) as Kitty, Tamsin Greig (Sexy Beast, Friday Night Dinner) as Holly, Lorraine Ashbourne (Sherwood, Alma’s Not Normal) as Jess, and Amelia Bullmore (Scott & Bailey, Vienna Blood) as Yvonne. Taj Atwal (Line of Duty), Chandeep Uppal (Holby City), and Macy Jacob-Seelochan (Shadow and Bone) costar as Nisha, Kam, and Miranda, the band’s riotous backing singers.
Riot Women, a BritBox Original, premieres in North America with two episodes on Wednesday, October 22, exclusively on BritBox. New episodes will drop singly each week through November 19.
The cast of the six-part series also includes Anne Reid (The Sixth Commandment), Sue Johnston (The Royle Family), Peter Davison (Doctor Who), Claire Skinner (Outnumbered), Angel Coulby (Merlin), Jonny Green (White Lines), Ellise Chappell (Yesterday), Tony Hirst (Hollyoaks), Shannon Lavelle (The Hardacres), Mark Bazeley (Broadchurch), Amit Shah (Happy Valley), Rick Warden (Red Eye), Ben Batt (Domina), Natalia Tena (Harry Potter), Melanie La Barrie (& Juliet), Oliver Huntingdon (Sherwood), Richard Fleeshman (The Sandman), Olwen May (A Very British Scandal), Kevin Doyle (Downton Abbey), Nicholas Gleaves (Bodyguard), and Thomas Flynn (Masters of the Air).
Riot Women features original songs from the band ARXX.
A production of Drama Republic (One Day, Doctor Foster, The English), a Mediawan Company, for the BBC in a co-commission with BritBox, the series is created, written, and executive produced by Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax, Gentleman Jack, Scott & Bailey), who also serves as lead director. It is produced by Jessica Taylor (Happy Valley, Fool Me Once). The executive producers are Roanna Benn (One Day, Doctor Foster) for Drama Republic, Tanya Qureshi for the BBC, and Robert Schildhouse and Jess O’Riordan for BritBox.
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