Some Girls (TV series)

Some Girls
Genre	Comedy
Created by	Bernadette Davis
Written by	Bernadette Davis
Directed by	Adam Miller
Starring	Adelayo Adedayo Mandeep Dhillon Alice Felgate Natasha Jonas Dolly Wells Colin Salmon Jassa Ahluwalia Franz Drameh
Theme music composer	Anita Blay Ian Masterson
Opening theme	"Doing It Wrong"
Ending theme	"Doing It Wrong"
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	18
Production
Executive producer(s)	Helen Williams
Producer(s)	Justin Davies
Location(s)	England
Editor(s)	William Webb
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Hat Trick
Release
Original network	BBC Three
Original release	6 November 2012 (2012-11-06) – 22 December 2014 (2014-12-22)
External links
BBC Three - Some Girls

Some Girls is a British sitcom written by Bernadette Davis that airs on BBC Three. The show stars Adelayo Adedayo, Mandeep Dhillon, Alice Felgate, Natasha Jonas, Dolly Wells, Colin Salmon, Jassa Ahluwalia and Franz Drameh. It debuted on 6 November 2012 and the first series ran for six episodes.

BBC Three announced at the end of the first series that the show would return for a second series.^[1] On 18 September 2013, they confirmed that each episode of the second series will premiere on BBC iPlayer a week before being broadcast on BBC Three. The first episode became available on iPlayer on 23 September and was broadcast on BBC Three on 30 September, with the rest of the series following that trend.^[2] BBC Three announced in March 2014 that the show had been recommissioned for a third series,^[3] which aired in November and December 2014.

Synopsis

(from left to right):Alice Felgate, Mandeep Dhillon, Adelayo Adedayo and Natasha Jonas.

Some Girls focuses on four 16-year-old schoolgirls – their lives, loves, and mundane teenager preoccupations, including: school, boyfriends, careers and sex. They live within the same housing estate in South London, and attend the same local school, where they all play for the demoralised football team.

The chief protagonist, Viva Bennett (Adedayo), aims to "stay motivated" with her A levels, in an ambition to become a celebrity child psychologist, on Living TV – meanwhile, she psycho-analyses her friends. Viva lives with firefighter-dad Rob (Salmon), her sex-obsessed younger brother, Jamie (Nathan Bryon), and her stepmother – Anna Hitchcock (Wells), a New Zealander who also happens to be an unsympathetic PE teacher and football coach, at the girls' school – "Bitchcock".^[4]

Viva and her close friends' conversation spans history homework to their life goals, and they comprise:

• Holli Vavasour (Jonas), who is prone to violent but entertaining outbursts, and looks after her younger siblings, with Viva as a mother-figure (since her own is absent).
• Saz Kaur (Dhillon), an up-tight maths geek from a traditional British Punjabi/Sikh family, with a cynical but funny view of life.
• Amber Dean (Felgate), a well-meaning but gullible and dim blonde, who is obsessed with boyfriends.

Cast

Regular

• Adelayo Adedayo as Viva Bennett, a smart and pragmatic girl with aspirations to attend university and become a psychologist. She later becomes engaged to her boyfriend Rocky.
• Alice Felgate as Amber Dean, a happy-go-lucky, but dim-witted, girl who has an on-and-off relationship with her boyfriend, Brandon.
• Natasha Jonas as Holli Vavasour, a violent and often angry girl who comes from a large family of siblings.
• Mandeep Dhillon as Saz Kaur, a bitter, sarcastic and up-tight maths geek who comes from a strict Sikh family. Due to her behaviour, is often called "weird".
• Dolly Wells as Anna "Bitchcock" Hitchcock, Viva's New Zealander stepmother and the girls' football coach.
• Colin Salmon as Rob Bennett, Viva's father and Anna's partner.
• Jassa Ahluwalia as Rocky, Viva's love interest and later boyfriend and fiance.

Recurring

• Nathan Bryon as Jamie Bennett, Viva's brother and Rob's son.
• Sarah Hoare as Mel, Viva's friend who has a baby named 'Baldy'.
• Franz Drameh as Brandon Taylor, Amber's on-and-off boyfriend.
• Nick Holder, later Geoffrey McGivern, as Mr Jefferies, the girls' headmaster at Greenshoots Academy.
• Jacob Scipio as Tyler Blaine, head boy of Greenshoots Academy who becomes Viva's boyfriend for a time.
• Justine Cain as Charlie, the self-imposed leader at 'The Pretties' clique at Greenshoots Academy and Viva, Amber, Holli and Saz's worst enemy.

Commentary and reaction

Some Girls has been described as: "...a comedy about the kind of girls more usually seen in worrying documentaries about inner city teens."^[5] Bernadette Davis has said: "As far as I know, there aren't any other comedies about girls of this age. Inbetweeners has shown what a rich area for comedy this age group is - but girls are very different and I thought they should have their own show."^[6]

The Daily Mirror made the first episode of Some Girls "Tuesday's must-see TV" and described the show as "Energetic, irreverent and real".^[7] The Stage online said: "the relationship between the quartet of friends is well observed and firmly rooted in recognisable, realistic emotions".^[8] Comedian Jimmy Mulville, Managing Director of Hat Trick Productions, says: "This second series of Some Girls confirms Bernadette Davis as one of the funniest writers working today. We're lucky to have her."^[9]

Episode list

Series 1 (2012)

Series 2 (2013)

Series 3 (2014)

References

External links

• Some Girls at BBC Programmes
  
• Some Girls at British Comedy Guide
• Some Girls at the Internet Movie Database
• BBC - Some Girls Series 1 Episode 1 - Draft 24.2.12 (with story days) - Script