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Exclusive: The second season of We Are Lady Parts has dropped to acclaim on both sides of the pond and now Nida Manzoor, its creator, writer and director is back at her laptop working up projects including an ‘alt Bond’ spy movie.

Manzoor speaks to Deadline soon after the season two launch of We Are Lady Parts, the punk comedy-drama, which has struck a chord with critics as well as viewers on Channel 4 in the UK and Peacock in the U.S.

Season two follows the titular punk band as they gain some recognition and navigate the choppy waters of the music business, meeting some of its sharks along the way. They also have to contend with competition from Gen-z upstart band, Second Wife.

The sophomore run sees each member of the band grappling with different issues, with comedic and dramatic consequences in equal measure: Amina (Anjana Vasan) moves...

After a three-year hiatus, “We Are Lady Parts” is back with a triumphant second season, filled with brilliant, catchy music, fantastical comedy sequences, and dynamite performances from the entire ensemble. Unlike a lot of contemporary filmmakers who make the jump from movies to TV, creator Nida Manzoor got to return to her roots after debuting a feature between seasons.

Season 2 (certified Fresh) finds Lady Parts — the all-female punk outfit composed of Amina (Anjana Vasan), Saira (Sara Kameela Impey), Aisha (Juliette Motamed), Bisma (Faith Omole), and manager Momtaz (Lucy Shorthouse) — enjoying a successful run of tours and an actual, engaged fan base. With their sights set on recording an album, the band faces financial struggles and a major opportunity that threatens to break them apart.

It’s been three years since “We Are Lady Parts” premiered, but Season 2 picks up shortly after Season 1. For writer/director Nida Manzoor, most of the...

At a pivotal moment in their careers, Lady Parts find themselves in a heated argument. Frontwoman Saira (Sarah Kameela Impey) wants the group to pivot to more overtly political statements, in contrast to the jokier material that’s been their signature up to now. Her bandmates, meanwhile, are skeptical. They’d be playing “pick an atrocity, any atrocity” to shore up their own cred, one argues. Their existence as an all-female Muslim punk band is inherently political, another suggests. Besides, wouldn’t that jeopardize the success they’ve worked so hard for? Or is that only more reason to speak up?

The group never do reach a definitive decision, and the meeting ends in anger and hurt. But to the extent that a solution to their dilemma exists, they might be living it already. Peacock’s We Are Lady Parts made an immediate impression in 2021 with its refusal to limit itself to any one box.

It’s been a long time since the world has heard from We Are Lady Parts — whether the fictional all-female, all-Muslim U.K. punk band or the delightful Britcom about the group. The series began streaming on Peacock in June 2021, and it was one of the best shows of that year. That fall, a second season was announced, with enthusiastic quotes from the show’s creator/writer/director Nida Manzoor. And then … radio silence. There was no further news about when, or even if, the second season would arrive until earlier this year.

Lady Parts is back from its U.K. tour and refocused and re-energized on its artistic goals, however, despite their success, nothing is ever easy! Season 2 of the acclaimed comedy “We Are Lady Parts” premieres on Peacock on Thursday, May 30, and sees the band deal with the personal and professional pitfalls of what it means to actually make it big and achieve your dream. You can watch We Are Lady Parts: Season 2 with a subscription to Peacock.

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About ‘We Are Lady Parts’ Season 2

Even though Lady Parts has been on tour across the pond, that success doesn’t mean much when they arrive back home to...

First-look photos of Malala Yousafzai’s cameo in the second season of We Are Lady Parts, launching on Peacock in the U.S. and on Channel 4 in the U.K. on Thursday, May 30, have been released and feature her in fringed western wear.

Early glimpses of her season 2 appearance also show the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner wearing a cowboy hat atop a horse. Produced by Working Title Television, part of Universal International Studios, the show is written, created, and executive-produced by Nida Manzoor.

The cast of ‘We Are Lady Parts’.

Yousafzai, a fierce advocate for girls’ education, joins We Are Lady Parts band members Anjana Vasan (Wicked Little Letters, Black Mirror), Sarah Kameela Impey (Vera, Halcyon Heights), Juliette Motamed (Halo, Magic Mike’s Last Dance), Faith Omole (An Ideal Husband, Endeavour) and Lucie Shorthouse (Rebus, Henpocalypse!).

Season two sees their band return with “a renewed artistic mission after the high of their first U.

Netflix Announces “Cobra Kai” Final Season Premiere Date

Wax off. Netflix has announced the premiere date for the sixth and final season of the “Karate Kid” sequel series “Cobra Kai,” starring Ralph Macchio and William Zabka. The martial arts dramedy will conclude its run with a three-part final season, with the first part premiering on Thursday, July 18.

Picking up with Cobra Kai eliminated from the Valley, Season 6 will follow the senseis and students as they decide if and how they will compete in the Sekai Taikai, the world championships of karate.

Watch the date announcement and first-look video for Season 6 of “Cobra Kai” below:

The series, which initially began on YouTube Premium (then-YouTube Red), Courtney Henggeler, Xolo Maridueña, Tanner Buchanan, Mary Mouser, Jacob Bertrand, and more.

The second half of “Cobra Kai” Season 6 will premiere on Thursday, Nov. 28, followed by the series finale in 2025 with an official date to be announced later.

Who said the heroes’ journey can’t take a little detour? In the trailer for “We Are Lady Parts” Season 2, the eponymous female punk band decides to dabble in villainy — to endlessly entertaining results.

Created by “Polite Society” writer and director Nida Manzoor, “We Are Lady Parts” premiered in the U.K. in 2018 and in the U.S. via Peacock in 2021. IndieWire’s Steve Greene wrote at the time that “Each member of the greater Lady Parts quintet could easily handle an episode on their own,” praising a show which is “at its best when it’s breaking free from restraints, too, tossing in a bunch of playful asides and visual diversions.”

“I wanted to go bolder, sillier, darker and deeper and that is exactly what we strived to do,” Manzoor said in a press release accompanying the Season 2 trailer.

Season 1 began with Amina (Anjana Vasan) joining Lady Parts without...

The band is (finally) getting back together: After a three-year layoff, We Are Lady Parts has locked down a Season 2 premiere date on Peacock.

Season 2 of the comedy about an all-female Muslim punk rock band will debut Thursday, May 30 on the streamer with all six episodes, TVLine has learned. The sophomore run will also feature guest appearances from activist Malala Yousafzai and comedian Meera Syal.

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Exclusive: Faith Omole, one of the stars of Nida Manzoor’s Peacock/C4/Working Title punk comedy series We Are Lady Parts, will have her debut play produced on the London stage next month starring BAFTA Award winner Rakie Ayola.

My Father’s Fable will run at West London’s Bush Theatre from June 15-July 27.

Omole, a British-Nigerian born in London, said in an exclusive interview with Deadline that the play’s main character, Peace, has learnt a year after her father’s death that he had another son in Nigeria who’s now coming to visit in London. “She has a boyfriend who is pushing her to meet him and a mother [played by Ayola] that doesn’t want her to meet this strange boy from Nigeria.”

The thespian, nominated for an Olivier Award for her performance in the glorious Sheffield Theatre, National Theatre and Various Productions musical Standing at the Sky’s Edge,...

We Are Lady Parts has a premiere date for its long-awaited second season on Peacock. The streaming service has released several photos teasing the new episodes. The comedy series debuted in June 2021 with a renewal announced in November of that year.

Starring Anjana Vasan, Sarah Kameela Impey, Juliette Motamed, Faith Omole, Lucie Shorthouse, Aiysha Hart, Zaqi Ismail, Shobu Kapoor, the We Are Lady Parts series follows the members of a Muslim female punk rock band.

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Lace up your motorcycle boots and rip off your shirt sleeves: acclaimed sitcom We Are Lady Parts is back for Series 2. Showrunner Nida Manzoor launched her career with Series 1 back in 2021, depicting the exploits of scrappy, all-female Muslim punk band, Lady Parts. Last year, she followed it up with barnstorming action-comedy film Polite Society, for which she won a BIFA for Best Debut Screenwriter. Rocking her way back to the small screen, Manzoor’s Channel 4 hit returns for another run next month, and you can see a selection of first-look images below:

The whole band is back together for this one: Anjana Vasan, who was last seen in the foul-mouthed Wicked Little Letters, returns as lead guitarist Amina, along with bandmates Sarah Kameela Impey, Juliette Motamed, and Faith Omole. Lucie Shorthouse is also back as the titular Lady Parts’ manager, Momtaz. The new episodes pick up with the band after their UK tour,...

Series 2 of Nida Manzoor’s We Are Lady Parts will air in May, Channel 4 has confirmed. Here are the details.

Series 1 of We Are Lady Parts, written and directed by Nida Manzoor, aired in 2021. The show followed the exploits of the titular all female Muslim punk band. It starred Anjana Vasan as Amina Hussain, Sarah Kameela Impey as Saira, Juliette Motamed as Ayesha, Faith Omole as Bisma and Lucie Shorthouse as Momtaz.

They all return for series 2, which is now confirmed to be airing from 30th May.

The delay between series was due to Manzoor writing and directing her first fearure film, Polite Society, which was released last year. If you haven’t had the pleasure, the film I a riotous martial arts comedy that follows aspiring stuntwoman Ria forced to use her fighting skills to save her sister from her sinister fiancé.

The official synopsis for series 2 reads...

Peacock has announced that We Are Lady Parts Season 2 will premiere on the streaming service on May 30, 2024. The new season will consist of six episodes, all of which will be available at launch.

Peacock also revealed that education activist Malala Yousafzai and comedian Meera Syal are set to guest star in the second season. You can catch up on Season 1 of the music-infused comedy, which is streaming now on Peacock.

Season two of We Are Lady Parts sees the band return with a renewed artistic mission after the high of their first UK tour, only to find a rival band threatens their delicate status quo.

As the reality of chasing success sets in, Lady Parts embark on recording their first album, juggling personal ambitions and deciding whether ‘making it big’ is really what they wanted. The series comes from Nida Manzoor and Universal International Studios’ Working Title Television.

“Making season...

Peacock’s We Are Lady Parts returns with Season 2 on May 30, with all 6 new episodes available to binge. Guest stars this season include Malala Yousafzai and Meera Syal.

The series, inspired by creator Nida Manzoor’s experiences and from the rich and diverse cultural collectives and artists in London, follows the Muslim punk band Lady Parts, featuring geeky Ph.D. student and lead guitarist Amina Hussain (Anjana Vasan) and fierce and enigmatic front-woman Saira (Sarah Kameela Impey).

Juliette Motamed, Faith Omole, Lucie Shorthouse, Aiysha Hart, Zaqi Ismail and Shobu Kapoor also star.

(l-r) Sarah Kameela Impey as Saira, Anjana Vasan as Amina Hussain, Faith Omole as Bisma, Lucie Shorthouse as Momtaz, Juliette Motamed as Ayesha

“Making season one of We Are Lady Parts was immense for me. It was a trial by fire, but I found my voice, my style and my confidence in creating this show,” said Manzoor. “Most importantly,...

The top honorees at the 2023 Laurence Olivier Awards were plays that focused on cultures outside of London. “My Neighbour Totoro,” which is based on the beloved Japanese film of the same name from Studio Ghibli, won six trophies, the most of the night, including Best New Comedy, Director, and four craft categories. A revival of the American classic “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams claimed three: Best Play Revival and for lead Paul Mescal and featured player Anjana Vasan. Meanwhile, the British-based “Prima Facie,” which is set to bow on Broadway this month and will thus compete at the Tony Awards, took home two prizes for Best Play and for star Jodie Comer.

The only other productions to win more than one trophy were all musicals. “Standing at the Sky’s Edge” won two of the top prizes: Best Musical and Best Original Score or New Orchestrations. “Tammy Faye,...

Exclusive: Standing at the Sky’s Edge, which won best musical at the Olivier Awards Sunday night, will transfer to the West End’s Gillian Lynne Theatre early in 2024, Deadline can reveal.

The show written by playwright Chris Bush, featuring rock songs from the catalog of Richard Hawley, moves into the Gillian Lynne from February for an initial six-month season.

It won two prizes at Sunday’s ceremony: the all-important best musical honor and original score or new orchestrations for Hawley’s music and lyrics and Tom Deering’s orchestrations.

The story is set in Park Hill, a brutalist apartment block built in the early 1960s, and follows three families who occupy one particular flat at different periods over six decades. Hawley describes it as a “love letter” to his hometown of Sheffield in South Yorkshire.

Standing at the Sky’s Edge played two seasons at the Crucible Theatre in...

Two new works based on existing material dominated the nominations for the 2023 Olivier Awards, the top theatre honor in Britain. “My Neighbour Totoro” and “Standing at the Sky’s Edge” lead the play and musical fields with nine and eight bids apiece. The former is a stage adaptation of the Studio Ghibli film of the same name, brought to life in a visually stunning production featuring impressive puppetry by Basil Twist. “Standing at the Sky’s Edge” uses songs from the Richard Hawley album and new material to tell the story of three families in a Sheffield housing complex.

Revivals had strong showings, too. Director Daniel Fish’s remounting of “Rodger & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!” and the Paul Mescal-led “A Streetcar Named Desire” netted seven and six nominations, respectively. This production of “Oklahoma!” previously played Broadway and received eight Tony Award nominations, including wins for Best Revival and Featured Actress...

The British television writer and director Nida Manzoor isn’t pulling any punches with her new film Polite Society. This lavish, colorful, and spirited martial arts movie stands to change how some people see high Society, never knowing if a human wrecking machine is hiding among the ranks. Manzoor’s Polite Society trailer presents us with a merry mash-up of sisterly affection, parental disappointment, and bold action. It’s a preview that’s as exciting as it is gorgeous, and we’re counting the days until the movie hits theaters on April 28, 2023.

The Polite Society trailer focuses on Ria Khan, who believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.

Manzoor wrote and directed Polite Society with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Olivier Kaempfer,...

Just ahead of its Friday premiere at Sundance Film Festival, “Polite Society” now has a trailer. The first look at the action comedy was released by distributor Focus Features on Wednesday.

The feature directorial debut of Nida Manzoor — the creator behind the critically acclaimed British series “We Are Lady Parts” — “Polite Society” stars Priya Kansara as Ria Khan, a British-Pakistani woman aspiring to become a stunt performer, who has always battled the expectations of her parents with her artistic older sister, Lena. But when Lena goes through a crisis, she gets engaged to Salim (Akshay Khanna), the doctor son of their mom’s snobbish friend (Nimra Bucha).

Devastated by the sudden change in priorities by her sister, the imaginative Ria convinces herself that Salim and his mom have nefarious plans for Lena, and that it’s her duty to save her. With her two best friends (Seraphina Beh and Ella Bruccoleri) reluctantly in tow,...

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re speaking with Working Title Television’s Surian Fletcher-Jones, the executive producer who is responsible for bringing the likes of Nida Manzoor’s We Are Lady Parts and Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About Love to the small screen.

Surian Fletcher-Jones has spent the last two decades of her career fighting to bring important and diverse voices out of the periphery and into the spotlight and now, after her latest efforts at Working Title Television, it seems the needle is finally moving in the right direction.

The esteemed executive producer and head of drama at Working Title TV, which is a part of Universal International Studios, is coming off the back of a banner few years with the...

“We Are Lady Parts” centers on an all-female Muslim punk band who are making music their way, building an audience, and balancing their personal life on and off stage.

Costume designer PC Williams designed each woman’s wardrobe to honor her relationship with her faith while also using costume to act as an avenue for cultural and self-expression.

The series, streaming on Peacock, follows five women— Amina (Anjana Vasan), the newly recruited lead guitarist; Saira (Sarah Kameela Impey), Lady Parts’ lead singer; Ayesha, (Juliette Motamed) Lady Parts’ drummer; Bisma (Faith Omole), the bass player, and Momtaz (Lucie Shorthouse), the band’s manager.

“All of these women are second-generation migrants, like me; I was born in the U.K., but my roots are from Nigeria and Ghana. When I was thinking about these four women, for me, it was about really trying to understand who they were culturally and marrying that with a London vibe,...

Aisha Bywaters won a BAFTA Award for Best Scripted Casting last month for “We Are Lady Parts,” but just working on the groundbreaking musical comedy was already a win for her. “It was such a special experience working on this show,” she tells Gold Derby at our Meet the Experts: Casting Directors panel (watch the exclusive video interview above). “It was a chance to work with lots of people, lots of women who also came from similar backgrounds to me, people of color who’ve had similar experiences growing up in the U.K. It just felt like a really nice experience. You don’t have to explain all the time everything you’re doing, why you’re doing it and why it sort of feels important or authentic, and why you want to make work that people can watch and feel seen.”

Created by Nida Manzoor, the Peacock series follows Lady Parts,...

Exclusive: The Rosenzweig Group is expanding its international client list, with the additions of actors Or Ben-Melech, Faith Omole and Aaron Poole.

Israeli actor Ben-Melech is known for his work on HBO’s limited series Our Boys, which won 14 Israeli Academy of Film and Television awards and received a Peabody Award nomination. He earned an Israeli Academy Award nomination for best actor for his leading role in the first season of Yes Studios’ Magpie and will next be seen in Season 2. Also upcoming for Ben-Melech is Terrence Malik’s The Way of the Wind. He continues to be repped by Shaked & Perri in Israel.

British actor Omole stars as Bisma in the new Peacock/Channel 4 series We Are Lady Parts. She recently played Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Globe Theatre and guest starred on ITV’s Endeavour. Her previous stage work includes a starring role in...

Peacock and UK’s Channel 4 have renewed the critically acclaimed musical comedy We Are Lady Parts from Nida Manzoor.

The series, inspired by Manzoor’s experiences and from the rich and diverse cultural collectives and artists in London, follows the eponymous Muslim punk band, featuring geeky Ph.D. student and lead guitarist Amina Hussein (Anjana Vasan) and fierce and enigmatic front-woman Saira (Sarah Kameela Impey).

Saira uses Amina’s desperation to find a husband as leverage, offering to hook-up dates for her if she agrees to join the band. Amina has never, ever met girls like this before, and soon gets swept up in their joyful anarchic energy. But she becomes torn and caught up between two different worlds – that of her more strait-laced university friends led by her bestie Noor (Aiysha Hart) and the world of Lady Parts.

Other cast includes Juliette Motamed, Faith Omole, Lucie Shorthouse, and Zaqi Ismail.

Get ready to do some celebratory head-banging, because We Are Lady Parts is coming back.

Peacock announced Monday that it has renewed the comedy series for a second season, which will air on Channel 4 in the U.K.

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“We Are Lady Parts exploded onto our screens and into our hearts with irreverent humor, original storytelling and boundary-pushing comedy,...

[This post originally appeared as part of Recommendation Machine, IndieWire’s daily TV picks feature.]

Where to Watch ‘We Are Lady Parts’: Peacock

“We Are Lady Parts” is constantly in motion. It’s not the kind of out-of-control frenzy that usually points to a show having no idea what to do to make its central characters compelling. Instead, this Channel 4/Peacock production, written and directed by creator Nida Manzoor, moves at the pace of someone trying to make sense of a world gradually shifting around her.

The show was an immediate highlight of Thursday morning’s Gotham Award nominees, getting recognized in both Breakthrough Series and Outstanding Performance in a New Series. The latter nomination went to Anjana Vasan, who stars as Amina, a PhD microbiology student whose guitar playing skills catch the eye of a local punk band. After a rocky intro and some deep questioning whether she’s cut out for musical rebellion (and vice...

The punk-rocking ladies of Peacock and Channel 4’s We Are Lady Parts came together to talk casting, Muslim representation on-screen and more at Atx Television Festival on Sunday.

Creator Nida Manzoor kicked off the conversation, moderated by Vanity Fair’s Sonia Saraiya, explaining how We Are Lady Parts came to be. Manzoor shared the show drew inspired by her music-filled childhood and strong women in her life, then explained that the series required engaging talent who knew their way around instruments – or would at least be willing to learn how to play.

“A lot of the actors didn’t play their instruments,” she said, before adding that brother Shez Manzoor, who co-writes the series’ original numbers with sister Sanya, taught the actresses how to play over Zoom lessons.

The series stars Anjana Vasan, Sarah Impey, Juliette Motamed, Faith Omole and Lucie Shorthouse. Only a couple of the actresses had...

Stories about fictional bands aren’t always as sharp as those bands themselves. Tales of upwardly mobile rock acts can be bland even if the performances themselves have some panache to them. Ragtag groups can be shabby on stage even if the looks at the lives of the individual musicians are the more entertaining draw.

But as is the case with “We Are Lady Parts,” the Channel 4 co-production premiering today on Peacock, there’s a clear charm in seeing the points where the music and whatever surrounds it line up in harmony. Playful with enough flair and distinct twists to shake up its more familiar pieces, “We are Lady Parts” is an energetic merging of aspiring artists and the fictional frame that presents them. For Lady Parts, those harmonies aren’t always tidy: They’re a punk quartet filling up any kind of rehearsal space with as much sound as the room can handle.

“Our music is about representation. It’s about being heard,” explains Saira (Sarah Kameela Impey), the lead singer of the band that gives the new Peacock import comedy We Are Lady Parts its title. Saira’s explanation for why she plays music is a fairly trite one out of context — what wannabe rock, pop, or hip-hop star hasn’t expressed a similar sentiment before in fiction? But once you understand that Lady Parts is an all-female, all-Muslim punk band in London, Saira’s battle cry about the importance of representation...

Soundcheck! Peacock's new music comedy We Are Lady Parts packs a hilarious punch along with plenty of catchy tunes. The British import series follows the members of a fictional Muslim female punk band called Lady Parts, who are on a mission to find a lead guitarist...and, you know, become famous. Anjana Vasan stars as a geeky microbiology Phd student who is a guitar novice that the band—made up of Saira (Sarah Kameela Impey), Bisma (Faith Omole), Momatz (Lucie Shorthouse) and Ayesha (Juliette Motamed)—tries to recruit to join Lady Parts. The series is created, written and directed by Nida Manzoor, who previously directed episodes of Doctor Who. Set in London, the...

U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 and NBCUniversal streamer Peacock’s riotous new comedy “We Are Lady Parts” is releasing an official soundtrack, Variety can reveal.

The stereotype-busting, Working Title-produced series about a fictional Muslim female punk band premiered on Channel 4 on Thursday to effusive praise from the U.K. press, which has widely noted that the show’s subject matter is effectively unprecedented on British television, where harmful misconceptions about the Muslim community are still rife in programming.

One look at the “We Are Lady Parts” track listing, which includes tongue-in-cheek songs such as “Ain’t No One Gonna Honour Kill My Sister But Me” and “Voldemort Under My Headscarf,” speaks volumes about the show, which boldly presents a group of female characters rarely seen on British and American lineups.

“We Are Lady Parts” is centered on Amina Hussain, a nerdy microbiology PhD student and guitar virtuoso who is on...

Amazon Prime Video debuted a trailer for “The Underground Railroad,” an original limited series from showrunner and director Barry Jenkins.

All 10 episodes of the series, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, will premiere on May 14.

“The Underground Railroad” follows Cora Randall’s journey to freedom in the antebellum South as bounty hunter Ridgeway seeks to bring her back to the plantation she escaped. Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon and Joel Edgerton star alongside Aaron Pierre, William Jackson Harper, Sheila Atim, Amber Gray, Peter De Jersey, Chukwudi Iwuji, Damon Herriman, Lily Rabe, Irone Singleton, Mychal-Bella Bowman, Marcus “Mj” Gladney, Jr., Will Poulter and Peter Mullan.

Jenkins executive produces with Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Brad Pitt, Richard Heus, Jacqueline Hoyt and Colson Whitehead. “The Underground Railroad” is a production of Plan B, Pastel and Big Indie with Amazon Studios.

Watch the trailer below.

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Peacock has unveiled a first-look photo of its upcoming series “We Are Lady Parts,” a musical comedy turning on an all-female Muslim punk rock band called Lady Parts as they look to recruit a lead guitarist and score their first real gig.

A Peacock Original, co-commissioned with Channel 4, the series is produced by NBCUniversal company Working Title Television. “We Are Lady Parts” is a semi-autobiographical work from writer-creator-director Nida Manzoor, inspired by her experiences among the cultural collectives and artists of London.

The series features an ensemble cast of exciting young talent in Anjana Vasan (“Amina Hussain”), Sarah Kameela Impey (“Saira”), Juliette Motamed...

NBCUniversal streamer Peacock and Channel 4 have revealed the first look at their British comedy We Are Lady Parts, from writer/director Nida Manzoor.

The series will air as a Peacock original in the U.S. but was first commissioned by Channel 4 in 2019 after it started life as a comedy pilot via the UK broadcaster’s Blaps strand. A premiere date was not disclosed.

Formerly known as Lady Parts, it follows the eponymous Muslim punk band, featuring geeky Phd student and lead guitarist Amina Hussein and fierce and enigmatic front-woman Saira.

Saira uses Amina’s desperation to find a husband as leverage, offering to hook-up dates for her if she agrees to join the band. Amina has never, ever met girls like this before, and soon gets swept up in their joyful anarchic energy.

Featuring original punk songs and cover tracks, the series stars Lucie Shorthouse (Momtaz), Faith Omole (Bisma...