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The creator of Happy Valley returns with a rip-roaring romp about a female highwayman... starring a Derry Girl
Derry Girls star Louisa Harland, from Dublin, plays the daring Nell in latest series Renegade Nell - a family show so fresh and imaginative it belongs in a genre all of its own.
Darkness dripped from every scene in Happy Valley, as the desperate battle between good and evil that pitted Sergeant Catherine Cawood against her nemesis Tommy Lee Royce in the bleak Yorkshire countryside played out over three series of the peerless crime drama. Originally written as a play for her Cotswolds amateur dramatics group many years ago, it's a feminist fantasy superhero folk tale about a female highwayman with special powers bestowed upon her by a sprite called Billy Blind. Britain’s answer to Cagney And Lacey saw police detectives Janet Scott (Lesley Sharp) and Rachel Bailey (Suranne Jones) fighting crime together on the streets of Manchester while also dealing with a succession of crises in their personal lives over its five series.
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