contender for best TV of 2025 Dope Girls BBC/Bad Wolf/Sony Pictures Television/Kevin Baker] Based on the 1992 non-fiction book Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground by Marek Kohn, the story centres on Kate Galloway (Julianne Nicholson), a single mother who establishes her own nightclub to provide for her daughter after a devastating family tragedy.
contender for best TV of 2025 Dope Girls BBC/Bad Wolf/Sony Pictures Television/Kevin Baker] It is the women who owned, ran and worked in the illegal nightclubs of London’s Soho (and those that tried to stop them) that sparked the inspiration for the BBC’s upcoming period drama Dope Girls.
contender for best TV of 2025 Dope Girls BBC/Bad Wolf/Sony Pictures Television/Kevin Baker] Regularly facing raids and fines, the force of the law didn’t deter Meyrick, who was once quoted as saying: ‘Fines don’t worry me… I’m getting quite accustomed to them now.
contender for best TV of 2025 Dope Girls BBC/Bad Wolf/Sony Pictures Television/Kevin Baker] The venue was described as a ‘rendezvous for members of the theatrical and variety professions and their friends’ however in 1920 it was struck off the register and the pair were fined for operating what a prosecutor described as a ‘dancing hell and a sink of iniquity’.
contender for best TV of 2025 Dope Girls BBC/Bad Wolf/Sony Pictures Television/Kevin Baker] It attracted highflyers, including actors Rudolph Valentino and Tallulah Bankhead, jazz musician Harry Gold, and authors J.
