BBC Picks Up All 5 Seasons Of ‘The Bold Type’ & Australian drama ‘Bad Behaviour’
The BBC has picked up a couple of series for iPlayer and BBC Three the UK broadcaster has announced – All 5 seasons of US drama ‘The Bold Type‘, marking a UK premiere for the final season as it has never aired here before, and Australian miniseries ‘Bad Behaviour‘.
‘The Bold Type’ is an American dramedy which gives us a glimpse into the outrageous lives of Jane, Kat and Sutton, three millennials who work in New York at the nation’s top women’s magazine, Scarlet. Navigating the turbulent world of publishing, their identities and individual voices, the series stars Katie Stevens (Faking It) as Jane Sloan, Aisha Dee (Safe Home) as Kat Edison, Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus) as Sutton Brady, Sam Page (Mad Men) as Richard Logan, Matt Ward (Arrow) as Alex Crawford, Melora Hardin (The Office, Transparent) as high-powered Editor-in-Chief Jacquelyn Carlyle, and Stephen Conrad Moore (Empire) as Oliver Grayson.
The first four seasons of ‘The Bold Type’ have run previously in the UK on both Prime Video and Netflix. However, this is the first time they have run on free-to-air UK tv, and also a premiere for the 5th and final season in the UK.
The series is executive produced by Wendy Straker Hauser, Matt McGuinness, David Bernad, Joanna Coles, Brian Madden, Ruben Fleischer and Sandrine Gros d’Aillon. The series is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group and The District.
‘Bad Behaviour’ is a four-episode Australian miniseries which stars Jana McKinnon (We Children from Bahnhof Zoo) as 25-year-old ‘Jo’ Joanna Mackenzie who bumps into her old high school friend Alice Kang (Yerin Ha, Halo) and memories come flooding back of the brutal year they spent together at Silver Creek – the wilderness campus of an exclusive girls’ boarding school.
Back then, the two scholars immediately felt a close bond of friendship – that is, until the cool and manipulative Portia (Markella Kavenagh, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) comes between them. ‘Bad Behaviour’ is a visceral ride into the epicentre of our teenage years where the decision to bully or be bullied has devastating consequences years later.
The series is produced by Matchbox Pictures, which is part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group. Led by an all-female creative team, the series is written by Pip Karmel (Total Control, New Gold Mountain) and Magda Wozniak (The Messenger, While The Men Are Away), produced by Amanda Higgs (The Secret Life of Us, Barracuda) and directed by Corrie Chen (New Gold Mountain, Homecoming Queens).
‘The Bold Type‘ Seasons 1-5 and ‘Bad Behaviour‘ do not yet have UK premiere dates, but are “coming soon” to BBC Three and iPlayer. If you want to keep track of these or any other show, you can add them via our Never Miss system, and you’ll be notified when it gets a UK premiere date.
