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The BBC‘s triple-BAFTA nominated play What It Feels Like for a Girl based connected Paris Lees’ memoirs is heading to Prime Video successful nan States.
The show launches connected nan Amazon streamer coming to people nan commencement of Pride Month.
Adapted from nan memoir by journalist and writer Lees, What It Feels Like for a Girl follows teen Byron (Ellis Howard) arsenic they flight a erstwhile mining municipality and are swept into its underground nine scene, discovering identity, relationship and endurance among a chaotic chosen family known arsenic nan Fallen Divas. Show besides stars Ellis Howard (Catherine nan Great, The Rachel Incident) arsenic Byron, pinch Hannah Walters (Adolescence, A Thousand Blows, Boiling Point), Laura Haddock (The Recruit, The Capture) and Michael Socha (Showtrial, This is England). Also joining nan formed are Laquarn Lewis (Jamie Johnson), Hannah Jones, Adam Ali (Waterloo Road), Alex Thomas-Smith (Too Much), Calam Lynch (Sweetpea, Miss Austen, Bridgerton), Jake Dunn (The Ballard of Renegade Nell), and Dickie Beau (Bohemian Rhapsody).
The BBC bid from Hamnet producer Hera Pictures was critically acclaimed and nominated for 3 BAFTAs including champion character for Ellis Howard and Best Limited Drama up against nan likes of Adolescence. Prime Video already airs queer shows and movies like Overcompensating and Red, White & Royal Blue.
Liza Marshall, Founder of Hera Pictures and Executive Producer, said: “We are immensely proud of What It Feels Like for a Girl. From its glowing captious reception to its important awards recognition, nan bid resonated pinch UK audiences successful a measurement that felt genuinely profound. Our exceptional formed and unit person delivered a portion of tv that is fearless, funny, and profoundly human. We are delighted that nan show has recovered its U.S. home, and we look guardant to American viewers gathering Byron and nan Fallen Divas connected this unforgettable journey.”
It’s been a bully week for income of BBC shows to nan U.S. On Friday, Paramount+ revealed it had picked up Nicôle Lecky’s Wild Cherry.
ITV Studios struck nan deal.
