Sally Wainwright

Riot Women is a story that starts a number of years ago because the women have all got life experience.

And that's interesting.

It makes them rich.

It makes them complex.

It makes them layered.

And it makes them interesting because they don't, you know, take crap off people anymore.

It's done really well.

I mean, we... It's...

It certainly hit its target audience, but it's gone beyond that as well.

It got really good viewing figures.

You know, we've had so many comments from women predominantly saying, I feel seen, I feel this really reflects what I'm going through and I've not seen it on screen before.

We got a lot of really nice comments from men, which really delighted me.

And it was interesting, actually, when we were thinking about the show, who will watch this?

Will men watch it?

You know, and it's interesting because people never ask, you know, if you make a West and nobody says, oh, will women watch this?

Yeah.

That question is never asked, is it?

But obviously it's niche because it's about women.

It's even more niche because it's about middle-aged women.

It isn't.