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BBC commissions new lesbian drama

Published Tuesday, Sep 1 2009, 12:23 BST | By Dan French
BBC commissions new lesbian drama
BBC Three has commissioned a new lesbian drama series, it has been announced.

The six-part series, titled Lip Service, will follow the sex lives and love affairs of a group of twentysomething lesbians who live in contemporary Glasgow.

The soon-to-be-cast show has been created and written by Harriet Braun (Mistresses) and will film later this autumn in Glasgow.

Braun said of the drama: "Based on my own experiences and those of my friends, I wanted to write a sexy, funny and irreverent drama that reflects what it is to be a young gay woman living in Britain today.

"I loved The L Word but it's high time we saw some contemporary British lesbians, with all the bad weather, trips to the pub and repressed emotions that go with that."

She added: "It will be as funny as it is pathos filled, because in my experience that's how life is."
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