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Following the U.K.’s recent controversial Supreme Court ruling, the BBC’s newest TV series is attracting interest for bringing Paris Lees’ coming-of-age memoir to the small screen.

Set to the beat of the Y2K club scene in the early 2000s, What It Feels Like for a Girl follows 13-year-old Byron (Ellis Howard) before she becomes known as Paris, and who will do anything to escape the working-class coal mining town of Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. After becoming a teen sex worker and discovering the mesmerizing underworld of Nottingham, Byron finds belonging with “The Fallen Divas,” a “charismatic group of hedonistic misfits” and dives into self-discovery fueled by drugs, love and anarchy.

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The series also stars Jake Dunn as Liam,...

“Whenever I work, I’m like, ‘This will be the last time you do that,'” Jake Dunn laughs. “I just can’t believe it.”

His candid disbelief is no surprise when the Nottingham-born star, fresh out of drama school, went straight into filming a Sally Wainwright show. Dunn might be best known to viewers as Thomas in Renegade Nell, Disney+‘s fantasy adventure penned by the Happy Valley creator, which was canceled after one season last year.

“It does give you an understanding,” Dunn continues, “of when something is fizzing and exciting versus when something maybe doesn’t have that same impact on first read.” The 25-year-old would know better than a lot of people — he’s also worked on Jack Rook’s Big Boys, Nick Hamm’s historical epic William Tell and now turns to the BBC Three’s millennial coming-of-age drama based on the memoir by transgender journalist Paris Lees.

The BBC has shared the first images and cast details for What It Feels Like For A Girl, an upcoming drama based on the memoir by Paris Lees. The eight-part series is set to premiere on BBC Three and iPlayer later this year.

The series follows Byron, a working-class teenager who leaves a small town for Nottingham, stepping into the lively and chaotic club scene of the early 2000s. Ellis Howard (Catherine the Great) stars as Byron, portraying the character’s journey from being seen as a schoolboy to embracing life as a trans woman at university.

Speaking about the lead actor, Lees said, “The biggest challenge was always the lead role – we’re following someone who’s going from, in the eyes of the outside world, a schoolboy, right up to a trans woman starting university, and all that’s in between. The moment I saw Ellis, I recognised something in him – a cheekiness,...

Exclusive: The BBC has revealed the cast and first-look images of What It Feels Like For A Girl, the adaptation of the memoir by transgender trailblazer Paris Lees.

The eight-part series will land on BBC3 and iPlayer later this year, featuring a cast led by Ellis Howard (Catherine the Great) who plays Byron, a working-class school kid who escapes a small town for Nottingham and discovers more than just the hedonistic world of the noughties clubbing scene.

Lees said: “The biggest challenge was always the lead role – we’re following someone who’s going from, in the eyes of the outside world, a schoolboy, right up to a trans woman starting university, and all that’s in between. The moment I saw Ellis, I recognised something in him – a cheekiness, a delicateness, a complexity – and knew he was the one. And he rose to the challenge, again and again.”

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Red Rose is a horror series starring Amelia Clarkson and Natalie Hoflin. It is directed by Lisa Siwe, Ramon Salazar and Henry Blake.

Red Rose is one of those urban legends transformed into a series which, if in the hands of others would have been a disaster, but here we have the BBC which tries to make a good series with a plot that seems “impossible” and manages to do it.

A typical teen horror thing which, if it had been done by the usual studio, would have been a total disaster, but here, thanks to good directing, an atmosphere full of references to classics, interesting characters, an attractive story and very good direction andp planning, this series is a delight for the eyes.eferentes clásicos, personajes interesantes, una historia atractiva y una muy buena dirección y planificación hacen de esta serie una delicia que llevarse a la vista.

Red Rose (2022)

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Traditionally, January and February are the dumping ground for major Hollywood studios. With awards season in full swing and audiences playing catchup on the biggest titles of the prior year, the first two months are usually the perfect place for dropping projects that don't inspire much confidence. But the rise of streaming is slowly changing that trend. Less concerned about the box office and much more obsessed with keeping their release schedules consistent, streamers like Netflix make sure to always have exciting new titles lined up, dump months be damned. So expect another full slate on the streamer as we enter February. Just because it's the shortest month of the year, doesn't mean we can't still have plenty of fun!

Below is a list (and some curated standout titles) of everything coming to Netflix in February 2023.

Red Rose

The idea of teens being controlled by their phones has become a...

Social media is bad and scary, young women are frequently horrible to each other and everyone spends too much time on their phones is actually Not the main take away from the first three episodes of this sort-of-ya sort-of-horror series new to BBC Three. It’s actually a lot more nuanced than that in a series that initially plays like a mash up of 2010s horror, 1990s teen drama and Derry Girls’ potty-mouth rough-and-ready sense of humour. Weird combo though that may sound, in Red Rose it works, picking the best of the tropes, populating the show with likeable and believable characters and sprinkling modern social realism into the mix.

Set in Bolton in the modern day (we know this because everyone has a smartphone), a bunch of friends have just finished their GCSEs and are planning a summer of getting wasted. Rochelle (Isis Hainsworth) is the de facto leader,...

“Sex Education” producer Eleven has revealed a cast of rising stars for upcoming BBC and Netflix horror series “Red Rose.”

Created by the Clarkson Twins – Michael and Paul, the eight-part series explores the relationship between teenagers and their online lives. Set over a long hot summer following high school, the teens’ friendships are infiltrated by the Red Rose app, which blooms on their smartphones, threatening them with dangerous consequences if they don’t meet its demands. The app exposes the group to a seemingly supernatural entity and the seductive power of the dark web.

The cast includes Amelia Clarkson, Isis Hainsworth, Ali Khan Ellis Howard and Ashna Rabheru alongside Adam Nagaitis, Natalie Gavin and Samuel Anderson. Making their television debuts are Harry Redding, currently in “To Kill A Mockingbird” on London’s West End, and Laurence Olivier Bursary winner Natalie Blair.

“Red Rose” is directed by Ramon Salazar (Netflix thriller...