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Up the Women is a BBC television sitcom created, written by and starring Jessica Hynes. It was first broadcast on BBC Four on 30 May 2013. The sitcom is about a group of women in 1910 who form a Women's Suffrage movement. Hynes originally planned to write a comedy film about a suffragette plot to assassinate H. H. Asquith, but after realising the plot had turned quite dark, she decided to write a sitcom instead. Christine Gernon directed the three-part series, which became the last sitcom to be filmed before a live audience at BBC Television Centre and the first to be commissioned for BBC Four. A second series was commissioned in June 2013 and aired on BBC Two from 21 January 2015. Up the Women was not renewed for a third series.
Original Release
05/30/2013 on BBC
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Jessica Hynes | Margaret |
Emma Pierson | Eva |
Judy Parfitt | Myrtle |
Ryan Sampson | Thomas |
Georgia Groome | Emily |
Rebecca Front | Helen |
Adrian Scarborough | Frank |
Pip Torrens | Lawrence |
Dominic Coleman | Officer Thackeray |
Tom Stourton | Bertie Smuth |
Directors
Writers
Jessica Hynes, Morwenna Banks, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Adam Kay
Creators
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jessica Hynes | Margaret |
Emma Pierson | Eva |
Judy Parfitt | Myrtle |
Ryan Sampson | Thomas |
Georgia Groome | Emily |
Rebecca Front | Helen |
Adrian Scarborough | Frank |
Pip Torrens | Lawrence |
Dominic Coleman | Officer Thackeray |
Tom Stourton | Bertie Smuth |
Sandi Toksvig | Emmeline Pankhurst |
Rufus Jones | Charlie |
Paul Putner | Osbert |
Jarred Christmas | Hilary |
Sam Battersea | Parthenope |
Bruce Mackinnon | Leslie |
Clare Warde | Ezmeralda |
Harry Peacock | Young Winston Churchill |
Rebekah Staton | Betty |
Matthew Ashforde | Police Officer |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Henry Normal | Executive Producer |
Mark Freeland | Executive Producer |
Lindsay Hughes | Executive Producer |
Jessica Hynes | Producer |
Emma Strain | Producer |