First-look images released for Dolly Alderton’s highly anticipated adaptation of Everything I Know About Love, for BBC One and BBC iPlayer

First look images have been released today of Emma Appleton (Maggie), Bel Powley (Birdy), Marli Siu (Nell), Aliyah Odoffin (Amara) and Connor Finch (Street) in Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About Love.

Published: 15 March 2022
Updated: 15 March 2022

Inspired by her own wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking, internationally bestselling memoir of the same name, Everything I Know About Love, will give an unflinching account of surviving your 20s.

Bel Powley (Birdy), Emma Appleton (Maggie)
Bel Powley (Birdy), Emma Appleton (Maggie)

The seven-part series for BBC One will be directed by China Moo-Young (Intergalactic, Harlots) and produced by Working Title Television (We Are Lady Parts, Hanna), which is part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group.

Marli Siu (Nell), Emma Appleton (Maggie), Bel Powley (Birdy), Aliyah Odoffin (Amara)
Marli Siu (Nell), Emma Appleton (Maggie), Bel Powley (Birdy), Aliyah Odoffin (Amara)

Set in a 2012 London house-share, with flashbacks to suburban adolescence in the early noughties, the series is an unflinching deep dive into bad dates, heartaches and humiliations and begs the question: can platonic love survive romantic love as we grow up?

Aliyah Odoffin (Amara)) in a dance class
Aliyah Odoffin (Amara)

Everything I Know About Love is created and adapted by Dolly Alderton and directed by China Moo-Young. It is executive produced by Jo McClellan for the BBC, Dolly Alderton, and Surian Fletcher-Jones, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner for Working Title Television; and produced by Simon Maloney. It was commissioned by Piers Wenger, Director of BBC Drama.

The series will be distributed by NBCUniversal Global Distribution. Filming took place in Manchester and London.

Marli Siu (Nell)
Marli Siu (Nell)

Everything I Know About Love is coming soon to BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

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