Hullraisers

Hullraisers is a British television sitcom written by Lucy Beaumont, Anne-Marie O'Connor and Caroline Moran. It is about three women who live in Kingston upon Hull, England.

Production
Beaumont wrote the pilot after being approached by Fable to create an adaptation of the Israeli show, Little Mom. O'Connor and Moran came on board when the series was commissioned for Channel 4. Hullraisers premiered in the US on IFC on 5 April 2023.

Synopsis
Hullraisers is set in Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It follows the lives of struggling actress and mother Toni, her older sister Paula, along with Paula's sister-in-law, police officer Rana, a sexually confident woman who is the only member of the group who is unmarried and does not have children. Beaumont felt that it was important to set the show in Hull, due to the city's lack of representation in UK media. "Beaumont said of the show, 'I'm really proud of it because I feel like everyone was on the same page with the class thing. There are a lot of production companies that are very London-centric. We see so few authentic working-class representations, especially in comedy, I've had so little to refer to and that annoyed me.'""O'Connor said of the show, 'If you go to Bradford or Hull you could watch two women talking from a distance and you’d think they were having a fight. But then you get nearer and you realise they’re just discussing what they’re having for their tea. It’s not a Ken Loach film, it’s not misery tourism. Life’s a laugh, isn’t it? I've had some of the worst jobs in the world, but I’ve had a laugh while I'm doing it because otherwise, what else are you going to do? Just work 12 hours in a factory and be miserable? You make the fun where you are.'""Moran said of the show, 'I grew up in a council house on benefits and seeing working-class life on TV was very affirming. There were these funny, intelligent, characters who weren't just the butt of the joke, but the people making the jokes. There have been, lately, a lot of middle-class, aspirational shows. Hullraisers has a different take. Lucy doesn't want to send the place up, she wants to celebrate it.'"

The first series was shown in April and May 2022. A second series was confirmed in August 2022; it began broadcasting in November 2023.

Cast and characters

 * Leah Brotherhead as Toni
 * Sinead Matthews as Paula
 * Taj Atwal as Rana
 * Perry Fitzpatrick as Craig
 * Natalie Davies as Ashley
 * Matilda Firth as Grace
 * Yanick Ghanty as Dane
 * Shobna Gulati as Nima
 * Jaylan Batten as Jake
 * Oliver Turner as Luke
 * Felicity Montagu as Gloria
 * Pippa Fulton as Leanne

Series 1 (2022)
All episodes were made available on All4 following the first episode's premiere on 12 April 2022.

Series 2 (2023)
All episodes were made available two weeks prior to the series' premiere on Channel 4 Stream, exclusively to users subscribed to Channel 4+, a paid-for tier of the service.