Gritty new 'highly bingeable' BBC drama tipped as 'the new Killing Eve'

Gritty and sexy play is not for the faint-hearted but should entreaty to younger viewers with its action-packed communicative and chill soundtrack and graphics

Gritty caller costume play Dope Girls volition aerial successful the aforesaid Saturday nighttime slot arsenic immense hits Killing Eve and Taboo.

The £20million BBC1 series - which is not for the faint-heated - has been hailed astatine the “spiritual successor” to Peaky Blinders, and follows a hopeless clump of women arsenic they conflict for endurance astatine the extremity of World War 1.

Filled with sex, drugs and violence, it shows shows however the radical instrumentality implicit London’s underground nine country successful Soho. Show brag Jane Tranter, of Bad Wolf Productions, said she was thrilled with the BBC’s scheduling. "It’s a large slot," she said. "I deliberation Dope Girls has a spot of Killing Eve and a spot of Taboo successful it, determination is large communicative but it’s a spot antithetic - and it’s highly bingeable. You get to the extremity of the episode, they’ve got large hooks - you privation to cognize what’s going to hap next."

Their anticipation is that the six-parter, which has a pumping soundtrack and besides features graphics connected the surface to assistance the narrative, volition besides entreaty to younger viewers. "We volition emotion the assemblage that turns up for it nary substance who they are," she added.

Killing Eve, starring Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh, proved a immense deed for the BBC erstwhile it launched arsenic a Saturday nighttime play successful 2018, pulling successful much than 8million viewers. It came aft 2017’s gothically acheronian Taboo, from Peaky Blinders writer Steven Knight and starring Tom Hardy, besides became a breakout deed connected BBC1 and iPlayer.

The upcoming bid is based connected Marek Kohn’s 1992 publication Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground with the pb quality of Kate, played by Ally McBeal and Mare of Easttown prima Julianne Nicholson. In the plot, Kate is near widowed and penniless arsenic the warfare ends successful 1918, with her lone enactment to up sticks from her agrarian location and determination to London with teenage girl Evie (Eilidh Fisher) successful tow. Once there, she is reunited with her estranged elder girl Billie (Umi Myers), a nightclub performer, and Kate determines to bash immoderate it takes to marque a caller beingness for herself.

Their stories are inspired by the real-life experiences of Kate Mayrick and Billie Carleton, who ran Soho nightclubs for existent much than a period ago. By the 2nd episode, Kate is chopping up a murdered gangland villain utilizing the butchery skills she antecedently employed portion serving nutrient successful the colony shop. One root said that younger viewers were apt to beryllium pulled successful by the “energy and excitement” that runs done each episode.

Dope Girls, which besides stars The Jewel successful the Crown favourite Geraldine James arsenic Italian matriarch Isabella Salucci, volition aerial connected BBC1 from February 22.

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