BBC confirms transmission date for Three Girls

This one’s going to be another tough one to watch, make no mistake. Over the past few months we’ve had two significant dramas that have brought the story of high-profile true stories to the screen (BBC’s The Moorside and ITV’s current Little Boy Blue), and now we have another: the BBC’s Three Girls, which tells the story of three of the children who were victims in the 2012 grooming and sex trafficking case in Rochdale. Now we know when it will air.

FOX UK acquires Shots Fired; names transmission date

Shots Fired sounds interesting, if potentially controversial. And it boasts a starry cast: Sanaa Lathan, Stephen James, Helen Hunt, Richard Dreyfuss and Stephen Moyer among others. The news is that it has been picked up for UK broadcast by FOX UK, and we also now know when it will be transmitted. More after the jump…