Entered into: Best English Language Drama Series



Produced by: Hera Pictures

For: ITV1

Distributed by: ITV Studios



Based on the memoir of award-winning journalist, broadcaster and LGBTQ campaigner Paris Lees, this anarchic Y2K-set spin on a coming-of-age drama is a bold, joyful and unmissable TV event. Helmed by Paris Lees, a writer described as “the voice of a generation”, the series follows Byron, a teenager stuck in the small working-class town of Hucknall. Life explodes like a rush of ecstasy when Byron escapes to Nottingham, the mecca of Britain’s early 2000s club scene. Adopted into a hilarious, chaotic, loving chosen family of gender non-conformists, Byron is empowered to experiment – with sex, with drugs, with gender – and become something more. A comedown finally kicks in when Byron gets roped into committing a crime, but it might just be the wake-up call Byron needs to see what’s important and make a plan that will ignite the biggest, brightest spark to ever come out of Hucknall. Using distinctive visuals to take viewers on a wild ride of Y2K aesthetics, fashion and music, this riotously funny yet deeply personal and unflinchingly honest story is guaranteed to keep audiences hooked.