Leah Brotherhead plays Toni, a perpetually skint actress who drags her toddler to inappropriate auditions and promises breadcakes she can't bake for the school PTA. Sinéad Matthews is her older sister Paula, whose disciplining tips from a shop assistant end with a child abandoned on the roadside, while Taj Atwal's sex-positive police officer Rana lures a Hull City player's relative after discovering her one-night stand is third-team at best. Set in a city rarely seen on British television, the scripts by Hull native Lucy Beaumont, Anne-Marie O'Connor and Caroline Moran treat working-class life as the source of the joke rather than the butt of it, with episodes built around flamingo-themed birthday disasters, detox failures and pole-dancing mums.
Channel 4 quietly released both six-episode series on All4 before transmission, the second run appearing two weeks early for paying subscribers. Ratings slid from 1.15 million for the launch to 390,000 by the series-one finale, yet a recommission arrived within three months. The second run landed in November 2023, was abruptly pulled from schedules, and the show was officially cancelled later that year, leaving the women mid-mess and their East Riding estates still waiting for an on-screen encore.
Production Details
Channel 4 / 2 Seasons / 12 Episodes / 2022 - Present
Created by: Lucy Beaumont, Anne Marie O'Connor, Caroline Moran
Writer(s): Lucy BeaumontAnne-Marie O'ConnorCaroline Moran[1][2]
Producer(s): Lisa Mitchell
Main Cast
Leah Brotherhead as Toni
Sinéad Matthews as Paula
Taj Atwal as Rana
Yanick Ghanty as Dane
Gabriel Palmer as Kian
Merch Husey as Adil
Jennifer Daley as Jill
Dexter Sol Ansell as Finlay
