Brief Encounters (TV series)

Brief Encounters
Genre	Drama
Created by	Oriane Messina Fay Rusling
Based on	Good Vibrations: The True Story of Ann Summers by Jacqueline Gold
Written by	Oriane Messina Fay Rusling
Directed by	Joss Agnew Marek Losey Jill Robertson
Starring	Sophie Rundle Penelope Wilton Angela Griffin Sharon Rooney Aisling Franciosi Will Merrick
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Executive producer(s)	Danielle Lux Arabella McGuigan Oriane Messina Fay Rusling Matthew Read
Producer(s)	Anne-Louise Russell Carolyn Parry-Jones Jo Willett
Editor(s)	Ben Drury
Location(s)	Sheffield, United Kingdom
Cinematography	Nick Dance Ollie Downey Tim Palmer
Production company(s)	CPL Productions
Release
Original network	ITV
External links
Production website

Brief Encounters is a forthcoming British comedy-drama series created by Oriane Messina and Fay Rusling. The series is loosely based on Gold Group International CEO, Jacqueline Gold's 1995 memoir, Good Vibrations,^[1] details the beginning of the Ann Summers retailer company, through four women who see the potential of finding happiness and fulfillment by selling lingerie and sex toys to women in the privacy of their own homes.^[2][3] The series is produced by CPL Productions for broadcast on ITV. Filming began in January 2016 in Sheffield.^[4]

Plot

In the early 1980s the lives of four ordinary women, their husbands, mothers, families and community are turned around when they become Ann Summers party plan saleswomen.

Cast

• Sophie Rundle^[5] as Steph
• Angela Griffin as Nita
• Penelope Wilton as Pauline
• Sharon Rooney as Dawn
• Felicity Montagu as Joan
• Peter Wight as Brian
• Will Merrick as Russell
• Karl Davies as Terry
• Don Gilet as Kieran
• Gina Bramhill
• Grant Crookes

References

1. "ITV is making a drama about Ann Summers. Yeah, that Ann Summers". Metro. 3 December 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
2. "ITV making an Ann Summers drama, obviously called Brief Encounters". The Independent. 3 December 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
3. "ITV to make drama about Ann Summers' parties". The Daily Telegraph. 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
4. "ITV’s Brief Encounters to start filming in Sheffield". Prolific North. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
5. "ITV drama about Ann Summers casts Sharon Rooney, Penelope Wilton, Sophie Rundle and Angela Griffin". Radio Times. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2016.

External links

• Brief Encounters at the Internet Movie Database