Format: 6 × 45' returning drama series

Tone: Shameless meets Derry Girls, with the criminal underworld of The Gentlemen and Top Boy

 

Genre: Dark Comedy-Drama / Crime / Ensemble

Setting: The Streets Of East London - 2006

 

Synopsis:

It’s 2006, and Cat is a young actress trying to make a life for herself in London. When the relationship she thought was love becomes increasingly controlling, she finally walks away from her police officer boyfriend, Gareth, with little money, nowhere obvious to go and absolutely no idea what comes next.

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What comes next is Purity.

Cat never imagined herself working in a lap-dancing club, and she certainly doesn’t expect to find there what she has been missing everywhere else: a family.

Behind the heels, fake tan and terrible decisions is an unlikely group of women from completely different worlds, funny, complicated, fiercely loyal and far smarter than people give them credit for. They fight, laugh, hustle and protect one another, and slowly Cat begins to realise that the place everyone tells her she should be ashamed of may be the first place she has ever felt genuinely safe.

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But Purity has another world operating beneath the surface.

Money, organised crime, corrupt relationships and competing loyalties connect the club to people with very different ideas about power and protection. As Gareth refuses to relinquish his hold over Cat, her old life begins colliding with her new one - and the women who have become her family are pulled into something far bigger than any of them expected.

Nice Girls turns the expected moral narrative on its head. The greatest danger in Cat’s life isn’t the supposedly immoral world she enters, but the respectable one she escaped. The club isn’t romanticised, its rules, contradictions and dangers are laid bare - but so too are the control, coercion and hypocrisy hiding behind uniforms, relationships and respectability.

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Darkly funny, warm and increasingly dangerous, Nice Girls is an ensemble drama about female friendship, class, survival, coercive control and the families we build for ourselves.

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Because sometimes the people society tells you to fear are the ones who save you.