A female-led “spiritual successor” to “Peaky Blinders” is within the works at BBC One. Deadline experiences that “Dope Girls” will delve “into the history of Soho’s criminal underworld.”
Set within the early twentieth century, the six-part sequence is reportedly partly primarily based on “the true story of conservative, god-fearing 42-year old single mother Kate Meyrick, who builds a nightclub empire and criminal family enterprise and becomes the most dangerous woman in London as well as a competitor to Brilliant Chang, the baron of Soho’s gritty underworld. Her nightclubs are fuelled by drugs and alcohol that allow for a generation of World War I veterans and survivors to forget their trauma and break through the rigid patriarchal structures of the era to allow women to dance, have sex, and do drugs with whoever they want.”
Written by Polly Stenham (“The Neon Demon”) and Alex Warren (“Eleanor”), the sequence is impressed by Marek Kohn’s non-fiction ebook “Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground.”
“Dope Girls” doesn’t have a U.S. residence but, however talks with co-production companions and international streaming providers are underway.