The Sex Education star has co-written and will star in Film Club for BBC Three. 

Updated 13/11/24: Film Club cast revealed.

Back in February, the BBC announced a new comedy drama co-written by, and starring, Aimee Lou-Wood (Daddy Issues) and Ralph Davis (House of the Dragon).

Now the casting has been announced for the series, which sees Wood in the lead role of Evie. She’ll play opposite Nabhaan Rizwan (KAOS), who takes the role of Noa (previously Tom).

L-R: Aimee Lou Wood (Image: Matt Holyoakk), Nabhaan Rizwan (Image: Maciek Musialek), Suranne Jones (Image: Stuart Bailey), Adam Long (Image: Phil Sharp), Liv Hill (Agata Nitecka), Ralph Davis (Image: Michael Shelford)

Joining the pair are Suranne Jones as Suz, Evie’s eccentric and unconventional mother, Adam Long (Happy Valley) as Evie’s boyfriend Josh and Liv Hill (Three Girls) as her sister, Izzie. The show’s co-creator Ralph Davis will play Dominic, Film Club’s newest member.

Aimee Lou Wood says:

“I’m thrilled that our beloved TV series Film Club, a project that Ralph and I have been writing for the past decade, starts shooting this week. We couldn’t be more excited, and grateful, to the incredible team we have assembled with the BBC. To bring this to life with Nabhaan and Suranne, two exceptional actors I have always admired, is a real honour.”

Nabhaan Rizwan adds:

“I’m excited, I feel relaxed and I’m ready… to parrrtaaayyy with the best of them!”

Suranne Jones says:

“I’ve loved Aimee for a while now and think she is a beautifully real, honest and brilliantly funny talent, so it was no surprise the script she and Ralph Davis have created was the same. It’s smart, sweet and punchy. I can’t wait to be her tiger mum… and I get to film in my home town too.”

Film Club is co-created and written by Aimee Lou Wood and Ralph Davis. Anna Jordan (One Day, Killing Eve) writes the fourth episode. The six-part series is filming in Manchester and set to air in 2025 on BBC iPlayer and BBC Three.

We’ll keep you posted.

Original article (of 22/02/24) continues…

The BBC unveiled a slate of 12 new drama commissions yesterday, including an adaptation of the hit play Dear England, more of Blue Lights and exciting new novel adaption The Ministry of Time.

Seeking to reinvigorate the sector, which she fears has become too risk adverse, BBC Head of Drama Lindsay Salt says of the corporation: “While others might become more cautious, we will go further and take the risks others won’t.”

One of those new commissions involves a series which finds a familiar name in a new role. The forthcoming BBC Three comedy-drama Film Club is co-created and written by Aimee Lou Wood, one of the graduating class from Netflix’s Sex Education. She’s gone on to roles opposite Bill Nighy in Living, the currently airing Alice & Jack, plus has forthcoming roles in Netflix’s Toxic Town and BBC Three’s Daddy Issues with David Morrissey. Not forgetting a West End stint in Cabaret!

Somehow, Wood has also found the time to co-create Film Club with fellow actor Ralph Davis (SAS Rogue Heroes, Life After Life). She’ll also star in the series as Evie.

Here’s what we know about Film Club:

Every Thursday. 9pm. Tom and Evie watch a film together in her garage. Evie lovingly decorates the space to match the film of the week – from a yellow brick road for The Wizard of Oz to a space craft for Alien. It’s magical. They’re there for the love of the movies. Or at least, that’s what they tell themselves.

In reality, Tom is madly in love with Evie. What he doesn’t know is that Evie is in love with him too. But when Tom accepts a job at the other end of the country, their happily ever after comes under threat. He’s leaving in six weeks. That means Evie has six film clubs left to tell Tom how she feels, or risk losing him forever.

Evie is going to have to navigate all of this amongst the chaos of her family home – her eccentric and unconventional mother, Suz, and her younger sister Izzy. A trio of women full of love, and dysfunction, in equal measure.

The series is described as “A piercingly funny and utterly heart-warming screenwriting debut from two of Britain’s most exciting voices.”

Film Club comes from Gaumont and is created and written by Aimee Lou Wood and Ralph Davis. Executive producers are Alison Jackson and Jamie Jackson for Gaumont and Nawfal Faizullah for the BBC. The series will air on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer.

Aimee Lou Wood said:

“When Ralph and I met a decade ago we knew pretty much instantly that we wanted to create something together and this feels deeply organic and idiosyncratic and right. Jamie at Gaumont has been the most incredible collaborator and the BBC is the perfect home. Three of the most essential things to me have always been writing stories, watching films and acting so the fact I get to write a story ABOUT watching films AND act in it is beyond joyful.”

Ralph Davis adds:

“I couldn’t be more excited about this. Aimee and I have been speaking about making something together since we met at drama school. To be doing this together is a dream.”

We’ll keep you posted about Film Club.