Three Girls (TV series)

Three Girls
GenreTrue crime
Written byNicole Taylor
Directed byPhilippa Lowthorpe
StarringMaxine Peake
Lesley Sharp
Molly Windsor
Ria Zmitrowicz
Liv Hill
Ace Bhatti
Paul Kaye
Jill Halfpenny
Bo Bragason
Lisa Riley
ComposerNatalie Holt
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes3 (list of episodes)
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Production
Executive producersLucy Richer
Hilary Salmon
Susan Hogg
ProducerSimon Lewis
CinematographyMatt Gray BSC
EditorÚna Ní Dhonghaíle
Running time60 minutes
Production companiesBBC Studios
Studio Lambert
Original release
NetworkBBC One
Release16 May (2017-05-16) –
18 May 2017 (2017-05-18)
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Three Girls is a three-part British television drama series written by Nicole Taylor and directed by Philippa Lowthorpe. It was broadcast on three consecutive nights between 16 and 18 May 2017 on BBC One.[1] A co-production between BBC Studios and Studio Lambert, the series is a dramatised version of the events surrounding the Rochdale child sex abuse ring, and describes how the authorities failed to investigate allegations of rape because the victims were perceived as unreliable witnesses, and the local authorities didn’t investigate through fear of being accused of racism because of the ethnicity of the perpetrators.[2]

Three Girls drew a strong viewing audience upon its first broadcast, with 8.24 million viewers for episode one, 7.88 million for episode two and 8.19 million for episode three.[3] The series was released on DVD in Region 2 on 8 January 2018.[4]

A BBC documentary on the case, The Betrayed Girls, was broadcast on 3 July 2017 as a follow-up to the drama.[5]

  1. ^ Lara Martin; James Rodger (23 May 2017). "BBC drama Three Girls: What happened to the sex abuse victims". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  2. ^ "Three Girls: who is Sara Rowbotham? The sexual health worker behind the uncovering of the Rochdale child-abuse scandal". The Telegraph. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  3. ^ "Weekly top 30 programmes - BARB". www.barb.co.uk.
  4. ^ "Three Girls". Amazon UK. 8 January 2018.
  5. ^ "The Betrayed Girls: Five things we learned about the Rochdale grooming scandal from BBC documentary". The Manchester Evening News. 3 July 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2018.

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