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Trans sitcom ‘Boy Meets Girl’ gets second season

British comedy returns

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10 years ago

January 20, 2016

Mariah Cooper

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BBC2’s sitcom “Boy Meets Girl” is green-lit for a second season.

The show follows the romantic relationship between 40-year-old Judy, played by real life transgender actress Rebecca Root, and 26-year-old Leo, a cis-gender man. The second season will show Judy befriending a trans man while Leo focuses on his work life.

“Following the overwhelmingly joyous response to series one, the team have worked tirelessly to develop series two of this incredibly important comedy. ‘Boy Meets Girl’ returns exploring all the new comic turns in Leo and Judy’s romance; we will see some surprising shifts in some of their family members as attitudes and circumstances have changed since we last saw them. This year, we will also explore a whole new Trans experience,”Commissioning Editor for BBC Comedy Kristian Smith told BBC.

Creator Elliott Kerrigan won the Trans Comedy award for writing “Boy Meets Girl” which led to it becoming a sitcom on BBC. The award is a talent search for writers to portray transgender characters in comedy.

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