Lilies (BBC TV series)

Infobox Television
show_name = Lilies


caption =
genre = Drama
creator = Heidi Thomas
director = David Moore
Roger Goldby
Ferdinand Fairfax
Brian Kelly
starring = Catherine Tyldesley
Kerrie Hayes
Leanne Rowe
composer = Kevin Sargent
country = United Kingdom
language = English
num_series = 1
num_episodes = 8
executive_producer = Heidi Thomas
Tony Garnett
location = Liverpool, England
camera = Single-camera
runtime = approx. 59 min. per episode
network = BBC One
first_aired = 12 January 2007
last_aired = 2 March 2007
website =
imdb_id = 0813734
tv_com_id = 68311

"Lilies" is a British television drama series by screenwriter Heidi Thomas.cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/07_july/21/lilies.shtml |title=Lilies by Heidi Thomas - a new drama series for BBC ONE |accessdate=2007-06-12] The series was commissioned in July 2006 and broadcast from 12 January 2007 to 2 March 2007. [cite news|last= Staff writer|title= Heidi Thomas pens 1920s drama for BBC1|url= http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/broadcastnowArticle.aspx?intStoryID=161011|work= Broadcast Now (subscription)|date= (2006-07-21)|accessdate= 2007-06-16 ] It was not renewed by the BBC for a second series.cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6480000/newsid_6482500/6482517.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm |title=Controller explains decision |quote=The BBC's controller of fiction has explained why Lilies has been axed. |accessdate=2007-06-12] The show's tagline is "Liverpool, 1920. Three girls on the edge of womanhood, a world on the brink of change."cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/12_december/18/lilies_mccardie.shtml |title=Lilies by Heidi Thomas - a new drama series for BBC One: Liverpool, 1920. |accessdate=2007-06-12]

A DVD release of "Lilies" was classified 12 by the BBFC on 22 February 2007 and released in the UK on 16 April 2007. [cite web |url= http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Classified.nsf/0/91E1A9153C5AF4B38025729700400C4B|title= LILIES rated 12 by the BBFC|publisher= British Board of Film Classification|date= 2007-02-22|accessdate= 2007-06-16 ] [cite news |first= Robert John|last= Shepherd|title= Region 2 Out This Week|url=http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/news/news.asp?Index=11715&Section=308|work= DVD Reviewer|date= (2007-04-16)|accessdate= 2007-06-12 ]

Cast

* Iris — Catherine Tyldesley
* Ruby — Kerrie Hayes
* May — Leanne Rowe
* Dadda — Brian McCardie
* Billy — Daniel Rigby
* Father Melia — Scot Williams
* Frank Gadney — Iain McKee
* Phyllis Cook — Georgia Taylor
* Mr Richard Brazendale — Stephen Moyer
* Mrs Madeleine Brazendale — Jennifer Hennessy
* Alice Bird — Pam Ferris
* Miss Bird — Gillian Kearney
* Health Inspector — Kenneth Cranham
* Nazzer — William Ash

Plot

"Lilies" details the lives of Iris, May and Ruby Moss, three Catholic sisters living with their father and brother in a terraced house in Liverpool in the early 1920s. The story is set in the years immediately after the First World War and, as such, the after effects of that conflict are apparent.

The story seeks to depict a life lived on a knife-edge of poverty, though tempered by various kinds of love. All three girls must make their own way in the world. In the course of the series, each of the sisters tastes passion for the first time, and their lives, newly launched, are changed forever.

Episodes

References

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/drama/lilies/index.shtml "Lilies"] at bbc.co.uk
* [http://www.world-productions.com/pages/productions/in_production/lilies.htm "Lilies"] at World Productions
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/12_december/18/lilies.shtml "Lilies" press pack] at BBC Press Office
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