Age Before Beauty

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Age Before Beauty
Genre Drama
Created by Debbie Horsfield [1]
Written byDebbie Horsfield [1]
Directed byPaul Norton Walker [1]
Starring
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes6
Production
Executive producers
  • Debbie Horsfield [1]
  • Laura Mackie
  • Sally Haynes
  • Elizabeth Kilgarriff
ProducerGuy De Glanville [1]
Production location Manchester
Production companyMainstreet Pictures [1]
Original release
Network BBC One
Release31 July (2018-07-31) 
29 August 2018 (2018-08-29)

Age Before Beauty is a BBC television drama series by Debbie Horsfield that premiered on BBC One on 31 July 2018. [2] The six-part series is based in Manchester, England, and stars Robson Green, Sue Johnston, Polly Walker and James Murray. [3]

Contents

Plot

Age Before Beauty is a family drama set in a Manchester beauty salon. The series follows Bel, a homemaker and mother-of-two, as she deals with the demands of her family's struggling salon business and her warring family with the problems in her marriage. [4]

Cast and characters

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date [5] U.K. viewers
(millions)
1"Episode 1"Paul Norton Walker Debbie Horsfield 31 July 2018 (2018-07-31)4.57 million [6]
2"Episode 2"Paul Norton WalkerDebbie Horsfield7 August 2018 (2018-08-07)3.84 million [6]
3"Episode 3"Paul Norton WalkerLee Warburton14 August 2018 (2018-08-14)3.68 million [6]
4 [7] "Episode 4"Paul Norton WalkerDebbie Horsfield21 August 2018 (2018-08-21)3.67 million [6]
5 [8] "Episode 5"Paul Norton WalkerDebbie Horsfield28 August 2018 (2018-08-28)3.74 million [6]
6 [9] "Episode 6"Paul Norton WalkerDebbie Horsfield29 August 2018 (2018-08-29)3.82 million [6]

Production

Filming for the series began in June 2017 in the Northern Quarter, Manchester. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Casting announced for new BBC One drama Age Before Beauty". BBC. 1 June 2017.
  2. Fitzpatrick, Katie (25 July 2016). "BBC One books new beauty drama based in Manchester". Manchester Evening News.
  3. 1 2 "Star cast announced for new BBC drama Age Before Beauty". The Yorkshire Post. 1 June 2017.
  4. Lazarus, Susanna (1 June 2017). "Robson Green and Sue Johnston to lead new BBC drama from Poldark writer". Radio Times.
  5. "Age Before Beauty Episodes". BBC One. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Weekly top 30 programmes - BARB". www.barb.co.uk.
  7. "Age Before Beauty - S1 - Episode 4". Radio Times.
  8. "Age Before Beauty - S1 - Episode 5". Radio Times.
  9. "Age Before Beauty - S1 - Episode 6". Radio Times.