Airdate: Some Girls

Next month the Comedy Channel premieres Some Girls, a new UK comedy about four 16-year-old girls who play on the same school football team and live on the same South London council estate.

It’s been described as a “female Inbetweeners.” Well fit.

Written and created by Bernadette Davis (writer of 1990s British Comedy Game On), Some Girls is a series about growing up which takes a candid look at girls, boys and of course, sex. Along the way the group also plays some seriously fearsome high school football – the girls want to win and they’ll do whatever it takes.

At the heart of the comedy is Viva Bennett (Adelayo Adedayo), whose ambition is to stay motivated and go to college. She lives with her dad Rob (Colin Salmon) and her stepmother Anna “Bitchcock” Hitchcock (Dolly Wells – Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy, Spy, The IT Crowd), a New Zealander who also happens to be Viva’s brutal PE teacher and football coach.

Viva is great friends with Holli (Natasha Jonas) whose violent outbursts are legendary, Saz (Mandeep Dhillon) who is super sarcastic and comes from a strict Sikh family, and Amber (Alice Felgate) who is dim-witted but always attracts the boys.

The series garnered great reviews for its UK launch and the second season is in production:

“Some Girls is basically a teen girls’ take on The Inbetweeners, complete with profanity, banter, sex, swearing, violence and football. The setting, however, is no salubrious suburb but an inner city estate, lending a little more edge, as well as a more varied culturally mix, to proceedings. The comedy is frequently broad and sometimes blunt… I was extremely impressed by the narrator – Adelayo Adedayo, as Viva, is a real find.” The Stage, November 2012

“They all play for the same school football team and banter for England. It’s that brand of jaunty depravity made popular by Shameless but Febrezed thoroughly and nicely delivered by the young cast. Plus Dolly Wells is brilliant as their sadistic New Zealand PE teacher.” The Guardian, November 2012

“The Inbetweeners have nothing on these schoolgirls. It’s one thing being foul-mouthed and sex-obsessed in a middle-class suburb: quite another on an ugly council estate where teenage pregnancy, drug addiction and masturbation are dropped into conversation as casually as the weather.” Radio Times, November 2012

“The crude description of Some Girls would be a female Inbetweeners. It’s got four crisply differentiated school-age friends and a similar salty take on teenage sexuality and exasperation with the adult world. But the crude description doesn’t entirely do justice to what’s distinctive about Bernadette Davis’s comedy, which is a definite tilt towards drama and sympathy…” The Independent, November 2012.

9pm Wednesdays from May 8 on Comedy.