Film Club features Sex Education’s Aimee Lou Wood and SAS Rogue Heroes actor Ralph Davis who have teamed up to make an endearing new romcom drama series for the BBC about a woman who expresses her love through movie nights.
Friends in real life and co-writers of the show, Aimee and Ralph play Evie and Dom, who meet up each week to watch a film together. Look out too for Suranne Jones playing Evie's mother.
“When Ralph and I met a decade ago we knew pretty much instantly that we wanted to create something together and this feels deeply organic and idiosyncratic and right,” says Aimee. “Three of the most essential things to me have always been writing stories, watching films and acting so the fact I get to write a story about watching films AND act in it is beyond joyful."
Here's everything you need to know about the BBC3 and BBCiPlayer series Film Club…
Film Club release date
Film Club is a six-part comedy series that will launch on BBC3 and BBCiPlayer in 2025. When a release date is announced, we’ll let you know here.
Film Club plot
Friday night. 7pm is Film Club Week 198. Evie (Aimee Lou Wood) hasn’t left the house in six months after a ‘wobble’, and Film Club is her escape. A weekly chance to create a world of wonder, deck the garage out in whatever the movie calls for and spend a few uninterrupted hours with Noa (Nabhaan Rizwan)— her best friend and one of the few mates who still shows up. But tonight, things are different. Noa’s got big news. A dream job is taking him across the other side of the country, which means that all of this is ending. That reality is hitting. That they’re going to be forced to consider for the first time they might be more than just friends. Neither of them are the best when it comes to emotions but this time those emotions might be impossible to ignore.
As if life weren’t challenging enough already, Evie has to navigate eccentricity of her family home life — living with her fiercely loving single mum Suz, sister Izzie, and handsome boyfriend/sometime man of the house Josh.
Film Club cast —Aimee Lou Wood as Evie
Aimee Lou Wood plays movie-lover Evie. Aimee won our hearts as Aimee Gibbs in the Netflix series Sex Education but has also had roles in Alice & Jack, Seize Them, Living, On The Edge and The Electrical Life of Louis Wain. Aimee will also starring in the third series of the hit show The White Lotus as well as the upcoming comedies Daddy Issues and Toxic Town.
Nabhaan Rizwan as Noa
Nabhaan Rizwan plays Noa. He's previously starred in Kaos and In Camera. Nabhaan says: “I'm excited, I feel relaxed and I'm ready... to parrrtaaayyy with the best of them!”
Ralph Davis as Dominic
The newest member of Film Club, Dominic, is played by co-writer Ralph Davis. He says: "I couldn't be more excited about this, Aimee and I have been speaking about making something together since we met at drama school. To be doing this together is a dream."
* Ralph Davis previously Alexander Norton in the BBC1 war series SAS Rogue Heroes and has also had roles in Life After Life, Father Brown, Anatomy of a Scandal, Small Axe, House of the Dragon 2, Big Boys S3, Othello
Who else is starring in Film Club?
In Film Club, Suranne Jones (Vigil, Doctor Foster, Gentleman Jack) will play Suz, Evie’s eccentric and unconventional mother. Also joining the cast are Adam Long (Happy Valley, Masters of the Air) as Evie’s boyfriend Josh and Liv Hill (Three Girls, The Serpent Queen) as her sister, Izzie. Co-creator Ralph Davis will play Dominic, Film Club’s newest member.
Suranne Jones says: “I’ve loved Aimee for a while now and think she is a beautifully real, honest and brilliantly funny talent, so it was no surprise the script she and Ralph Davis have created was the same. It’s smart, sweet and punchy. I can’t wait to be her tiger mum... and I get to film in my home town too.”
Is there a trailer?
Not yet but when the BBC releases one, we’ll add it to this page.
Behind the scenes. locations and more on Film Club
Film Club started filming in Manchester, England, at the end of 2024. The six-part series was commissioned by Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, and Fiona Campbell, Controller Youth Audience for BBC Three and BBC iPlayer. It is made by Gaumont for the BBC and created and written by Aimee Lou Wood and Ralph Davis. Executive producers are Alison Jackson and Jamie Jackson for Gaumont and Nawfal Faizullah for the BBC. International distribution will be handled by Fremantle.
Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, says: “Our hearts melt every time we read a new script for Film Club. It’s a pleasure to be working with Aimee, Ralph and the Film Club team to take BBC Three viewers on a tender and funny journey across the silver screen, via Evie’s lovingly decorated garage.”
Alison Jackson, President of Gaumont UK and executive producer on Film Club, says: “When we first started talking to Aimee and Ralph about Film Club, we quickly realised this would be a truly special show, full of wit, warmth, escapism and above all – love. We are absolutely delighted to be working on this beautiful, funny drama with the team at BBC.”
