How Doctor Who Books Formed a Path to Writing the TV Show

Between 1990 and 2005, when Doctor Who wasn’t on Television, the present generally existed as original works. Many of the show’s fresh writers were chosen from the authors of those spin-off books when Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner, and Jane Tranter brought it back in 2005, including Davies and Steven Moffat, the show’s upcoming director. While they ]… ]

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Dope Girls is not your grandmother’s historical play (unless, of program, your grandmother has lived a life, has good taste in television, and was, in fact, do with a little more respect and condescension from those who assume she won’t be able to see anything that Alan Titchmarsh doesn’t give a damn ).

To try once therefore, Dope Girls is no Downton Abbey. Although it may be set during the same time period, this story of Soho girls dancing with danger, death, and other performers at bars where they work is a world away from the elegant machinations of the Earl of Grantham.

With a solid including players from the US, Australia and the UK, how’s who’s playing who in BBC One’s fresh Saturday night line.

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Eliza Scanlen as Violet Davies

Violet, a recent addition to the Metropolitan Police Service, is aiming to get chosen for the UK’s first female officer experiment,” The Adult Experiment” in which the first female officials were hired. She&#8217, s hard, only and has nothing to lose, which makes her a dangerous idea.

She’s played by American actor Eliza Scanlen, whose breakthrough jobs came in HBO’s 2018 version of Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects, and in Greta Gerwig’s 2019 have video Little Women, in which Scanlen played second-to-youngest March girl Beth. She most recently appeared in the National Theatre production of The Importance of Being Earnest this year opposite Doctor Who‘s Ncuti Gatwa.

Julianne Nicholson as Kate Galloway

A brunette woman in a black coat in BBC One's Dope Girls

After losing her job, Kate is cruelly forced to find her own way, and she must go to extreme lengths to support her and her teenage daughter Evie, a smart girl who has the potential to be one of the first women in the UK to study.

Julianne Nicholson, a US actor, is currently seen as the wealthy Sinatra in the Disney/Hulu political thriller Paradise, which has just been renewed for a second season. She’s known for Law &amp, Order, The Outsider, having played Esther in Boardwalk Empire, Lillian in Masters of Sex and Lorri in the first season of Kate Winslet-starring crime drama Mare of Easttown.

Umi Myers as Billie Cassidy

Umi Meyers wearing a dress and fur coat in BBC One's Dope Girls

With her singer friend Eddie Cobb, Billie lives a bohemian, drink- and drug-fuelled lifestyle in a Soho nightclub. Umi Myers, a recent graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, has previously appeared on stage and in Bob Marley: One Love. Myers ‘ first television lead role is Dope Girls.

Geraldine James as Isabella Salucci

Geraldine James in a blue dress in BBC One's Dope Girls

Isabella, the matriarch of the feared Salucci crime family, is a ruthless survivor who&#8217, kept her clan together throughout the War and many more. Geraldine James, a well-known actor and actress who has a long and successful career dating back to the late 1970s, plays her. To some TV viewers, she’ll always be indivisible from the part of Sarah in The Jewel in the Crown, to others, she’ll be best recognised as Rose from Band of Gold, Milner in Channel 4’s Utopia, Mrs Hudson in the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes films, and Marissa in Anne With an E, to name just a few.

Dustin Demri-Burns as Damaso Salucci

Dustin Demri-Burns wearing a dark suit in BBC One's Dope Girls

Damaso, a Salucci son, has a terrifyingly brutal side and belongs to a powerful Soho crime family. He’s played by Dustin Demri-Burns, who’s well known for comedy roles in Cardinal Burns, Stath Lets Flats, GameFace and Am I Being Unreasonable?, but has an equally healthy career in dramas with a comedic edge from The Great to Slow Horses, Britannia, Sweetpea and The Decameron.

Ian Bonar as Sgt Frank Turner

Sgt Turner is helping to run The Female Experiment, which saw the UK&#8217, s first female police officers. He&#8217, s a complicated man who does n&#8217, t wield his power well, and makes an early enemy of Violet. He’s played by Ian Bonar, who recently appeared opposite Peter Capaldi in Apple TV +’s Criminal Record, as well as roles across various TV genres, from I May Destroy You to New Blood, Vera and many more.

Fiona Button as Sophie Asquith-Gore

Fiona Button wearing a white and green dress in BBC One's Dope Girls

Sophie, the wife of a wealthy and powerful government minister and Alice’s friend, is grieving her brother’s passing and believes she can still communicate with him via a medium. She’s played by actor-director Fiona Button, who’s known for the role of Rose Defoe in Abi Morgan’s legal drama The Split, and was recently seen as Denise in series three of Industry, as well as in Grantchester, Out of Her Mind, and plenty of theatre productions.

Nabhaan Rizwan as Silas Huxley

Silus Huxley, a medium and occultist, extorts money from the wealthy to make contact with the dead. He’s played by Nabhaan Rizwan, who recently played Dionysus in Netflix’s KAOS, as well as appearing opposite his brother Mawaan Rizwan in his sitcom Juice, and in the US playing Frank in Station Eleven, after his breakout role in 2018’s BBC crime drama Informer.

Will Keen as Frederick Asquith-Gore

A powerful government minister who&#8217, s set on rooting out the rot in London &#8217, s seedy nightclubs, Frederick Asquith-Gore is played by screen and stage actor Will Keen ( incidentally, the father of Logan and His Dark Materials ‘ Dafne Keen ), who recently appeared in BBC drama Wolf Hall as Thomas Cranmer, as well as playing Lord Belzagar in the second season of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Norfolk in My Lady Jane, the Queen’s private secretary in The Crown, and David in Ridley Road, as well as appearing in feature film Operation Mincemeat and more.

ALSO APPEARING

A man holding two fans in BBC One's Dope Girls

Michael Duke, a musical stage and screen actor, portrays Eddie Cobb as a club singer.
– The Outrun and The Power‘s Eilidh Fisher as Kate’s daughter Evie Galloway.
– The Bay, The Reckoning, True Detective and Strike‘s Eloise Thomas as Evie’s schoolfriend Alice Asquith-Gore.
– The Sixth Commandment‘s, Ghosts‘ and Lead Balloon‘s Anna Crilly as butcher Anne Sanders.
– Bridgerton and The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself‘s Priya Kansara as nightclub dancer Lily Lee.
– Heartstopper‘s Ben Hope, aka Sebastian Croft as nightclub owner Silvio Salucci.
– The Newsreader and The Inheritance‘s Rory Fleck Byrne as returned soldier Luca Salucci.