Three Girls (TV series)
| Three Girls | |
|---|---|
| Genre | True crime |
| Written by | Nicole Taylor |
| Directed by | Philippa Lowthorpe |
| Starring | Maxine Peake Lesley Sharp Molly Windsor Ria Zmitrowicz Liv Hill Ace Bhatti Paul Kaye Jill Halfpenny Bo Bragason Lisa Riley |
| Composer | Natalie Holt |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 3 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Lucy Richer Hilary Salmon Susan Hogg |
| Producer | Simon Lewis |
| Cinematography | Matt Gray BSC |
| Editor | Úna Ní Dhonghaíle |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production companies | BBC Studios Studio Lambert |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC One |
| Release | 16 May – 18 May 2017 |
Three Girls is a three-part British television drama series written by Nicole Taylor and directed by Philippa Lowthorpe. It was broadcast on three consecutive nights between 16 and 18 May 2017 on BBC One. A co-production between BBC Studios and Studio Lambert, the series is a dramatised version of the events surrounding the Rochdale child sex abuse ring, and describes how the police and the local authorities failed to investigate allegations of child abuse and rape because the victims were perceived as unreliable witnesses and through fear of being accused of racism because of the ethnicity of the perpetrators.
Three Girls drew a strong viewing audience upon its first broadcast, with 8.24 million viewers for episode one, 7.88 million for episode two and 8.19 million for episode three. The series was released on DVD in Region 2 on 8 January 2018.
A BBC documentary on the case, The Betrayed Girls, was broadcast on 3 July 2017 as a follow-up to the drama.