A new BBC drama has been announced, Hot Flush, written by BAFTA-winning writer Sally Wainwright.
Set in Hebden Bridge, Hot Flush centres on five women of a certain age as they form a punk-rock band to enter a talent show. As they rehearse together, they suddenly discover that they have much more to say than they had ever imagined, and have found the perfect way to say it.
Sally Wainwright, writer and executive producer, said:
“I’ve been wanting to write a series like this for a long time. It’s a celebration of women of a certain age, and all the life-stuff they suddenly find themselves negotiating/dealing with. The show is my own personal homage to Rock Follies of ’77, and the feisty Little Ladies who woke me up to what I wanted to do with my life when I was 13.”
The six-part drama follows the women as they deal with demanding jobs, grown-up children who still eat up their energy, dependent parents, husbands who have let them down and the menopause. The band becomes a catalyst for change in the women’s lives, and it’s going to make them question everything.
It soon emerges that a deeply potent, long-buried secret connects Kitty and Beth, the two unlikely creative masterminds behind the band, and it’s a secret that could tear everything apart.
Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, said:
“We’re so excited to have the magnificent Sally Wainwright back writing on the BBC, with the brilliant Drama Republic team producing. Hot Flush is a sharply observed, vibrant and vital story of five very different women at the same stage in their lives, joined together by their love of music. But that’s just the start and – as you’d expect from Sally – there are twists and turns aplenty to keep viewers enthralled.”
The drama will be produced by Drama Republic.
