DEADLINE: BBC Commissions ‘Hot Flush’ Drama Series From ‘Happy Valley’ Creator Sally Wainwright

BBC Greenlights ‘Hot Flush’ Drama Series From ‘Happy Valley’ Creator Sally Wainwright Along With Jenna Coleman, Nicôle Lecky, Sacha Dhawan Projects – Edinburgh TV Festival

By Max Goldbart

The BBC has greenlit its latest drama series from Happy Valley creator Sally Wainwright along with projects created by and starring the likes of Jenna Coleman, Nicôle Lecky and Sacha Dhawan.

Set in Happy Valley home Hebden Bridge, Wainwright’s Hot Flush centers on the lives of five women of a certain age who come together to create a makeshift, butt-of-the-joke punk-rock band in order to enter a talent contest. When they rehearse together, they suddenly discover that they have a lot more to say than they ever imagined, and they have found the way to say it.

Wainwright had previously cryptically teased Hot Flush when she told the BBC’s Today program she had been learning the drums in preparation for her next project, and she described it as a “celebration of women of a certain age and all the life-stuff they suddenly find themselves negotiating/dealing with.”

Doctor Foster producer Drama Republic is behind the six-parter, coming a few months after millions tuned in each week to watch the final season of Sarah Lancashire and James Norton-starrer Happy Valley. Wainwright’s other credits include Gentleman Jack, Last Tango in Halifax and upcoming Disney+ series The Ballad of Renegade Nell.

Read the full article in Deadline here.