BBC2 will air Britain’s first trans sitcom this fall.
Boy Meets Girl was created and written by Elliott Kerrigan and Simon Carlyle, the Manchester-based comedy was discovered through the Trans Comedy Award – a BBC Writersroom talent search in partnership with Trans Comedy, which offered aspiring writers up to £5,000 for the best script that promoted a positive portrayal of transgender characters.
Boy Meets Girl stars trans actress Rebecca Root as Judy, a trans woman who begins a relationship with Leo (Harry Hepple). According to The Guardian: “While the commissioning of Boy Meets Girl is a revolutionary moment in British television, the trailer suggests the series itself is likely to be a gentle comedy in the vein of Hebburn, featuring remote controls being dropped in the spaghetti and jokes about the age gap between Leo and Judy. That’s not to say that the show isn’t willing to tackle its major social themes head-on: in the trailer Judy’s mother responds touchingly to someone who asks if she misses having a son. “I never had a son, she says. “I had a daughter who came out a bit wrong.”
Watch the trailer above.
