We couldn’t be more excited as the first-look trailer for Riot Women, a brand new drama brought to you by Happy Valley creator Sally Wainwright, has just dropped. The series follows five menopausal women who form a punk band for a local talent show and end up finding their voice in more ways than one.
Filmed in Hebden Bridge, the home of Happy Valley, the new trailer offers a first glimpse at the brand-new drama. Swapping out the police uniforms for guitars, amps and plenty of attitude in the new Riot Women, which centres around a female punk-rock band made up of five menopausal women. The brand-new drama from the multi-BAFTA award-winning writer Sally Wainwright
Starring Joanna Scanlan (After Love, The Thick of It) as Beth, Rosalie Craig (Moonflower Murders, Serpent Queen) as Kitty, Tamsin Greig (Sexy Beast, The Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin) as Holly, Lorraine Ashbourne (Sherwood, Alma’s Not Normal) as Jess, and Amelia Bullmore (The Buccaneers, Vienna Blood) as Yvonne, with Taj Atwal (Line of Duty), Chandeep Uppal (Holby City), and Macy-Jacob Seelochan (Shadow and Bone) as Nisha, Kam and Miranda, the band’s riotous backing singers.
Five women come together to create a punk-rock band in order to enter a local talent contest, and after writing their first song, decide they have a lot to say, and this is the perfect way to do it. Juggling jobs, husbands, children, grown-up children, and more, the band becomes a catalyst for change in their lives.
The six-part series looks at the themes of the power of friendship, music, and the resilience of women who refuse to be silenced by age or expectation.
Watch the trailer for BBC’s ‘Riot Women’ by Sally Wainwright below:
BBC’s new drama Riot Women will feature original songs from the band ARXX. It will premiere on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the UK in October 2025.
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