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Dirty Debbie (Holliday Grainger) Stanley Park

BBC Three shows a new comedy drama pilot series tonight, Thursday June 10th, starring Morwenna Banks (Saxondale) and Antonia Thomas (Alisha in Misfits).

Stanley Park is set in a south London suburb, the show follows young friends enduring the poignant and often hilarious emotional upheavals during a life-changing period. All living on the same street, it’s hard to really keep secrets, and it seems everyone has something they’re hiding, or hiding from.

Introducing “Dirty” Debbie (Holliday Grainger), a sassy fashion designer and self-proclaimed ‘Carrie Bradshaw of Croydon’ who, from the moment she arrived to live with gin swigging, Superking smoker and serial internet dater, Auntie Pat (Sharon Horgan), knew the place had trouble written all over it.

Debbie’s outfits are as outrageous as the erotic fiction she writes and no man can resist her charms but, across the road, there’s competition in the form of emo, Raggedy Ann (Jennie Jacques), who claims she was a bohemian poet in her past life.

“Bent” Ben is Raggedy Ann’s fabulous, Beyonce-loving best friend who is always on hand to provide a shoulder to cry on and a constant source of advice, but who could do well to counsel himself occasionally.

And then there is Sadie (Antonia Thomas), waggish with a nice job, a hot boyfriend, and a Gucci bag who thinks her life will really take off since she got engaged in Pizza Express.

Episode one starts as the residents of Stanley Park go about their everyday lives, Harry “the hottie” winks at Debbie as she walks home and sets in motion a chain of events that will change everything and everyone in the street forever…

The first episode of Stanley Park is on BBC3 at 9pm on Thursday June 10th.

Stanley Park is written & created by Leo Richardson and directed by Misha Manson-Smith (LALA Land and High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman).