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Cast announced for Lip Service, the BBC's new lesbian drama series
The cast for BBC3's new six-part drama series, Lip Service, about the "sex lives and love affairs" of a group of young Glaswegian lesbians, has been announced.
The three lead roles have gone to Laura Fraser (Florence Nightingale, Casanova, The Boys Are Back), Ruta Gedmintas (The Tudors) and Fiona Button (The Palace).
Fraser plays Cat, the former lover of Gedmintas's character, Frankie, a provocative and irreverent photographer and commitment-phobe, and Button plays Tess, Cat's best friend and flatmate, who usually ends up with the wrong sort of girlfriend.
Major supporting roles have gone to Roxanne McKee (Hollyoaks), Emun Elliott (Paradox, Blackwatch), Heather Peace (The Chase, Blue Murder), James Anthony Pearson (New Town Killers) and Tom Mannion (Doctors, Taggart) as Frankie's uncle, Cameron.
Writer and creator Harriet Braun, who also worked on the first series of Mistresses and co-created Attachments, said: "All of these characters are very close to my heart, so to have found such a great cast who bring them to life so fantastically is very exciting.
"Based on my own experiences and those of my friends, I wanted to write a sexy, funny and irreverent drama that reflects what it is to be a young gay woman living in Britain today.
"I loved the L Word but it's high time we saw some contemporary British lesbians, with all the bad weather, trips to the pub and repressed emotions that go with that. It will be as funny as it is pathos-filled, because in my experience that's how life is."
Made by Kudos Film and Television (Spooks, Ashes to Ashes, Life on Mars) for BBC Scotland, Lip Service started filming in Glasgow this month and the six one-hour episodes will be broadcast on BBC3 in spring 2010.
