BBC One Goes for Trio of New Series

LONDON: BBC One has lined up three new titles, Our Girl, Grey Mates and Inside KFC, for broadcast in 2014.

Starring Lacey Turner, Our Girl is a 5×1-hour drama series from BBC Drama Production about a woman who becomes a soldier in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Hat Trick Productions' 6×30-minute comedy Grey Mates follows the lives of three recently retired couples. The cast is led by Russ Abbot, Stephanie Beacham, Philip Jackson, James Smith, Alison Steadman, June Whitfield and Paula Wilcox.

Inside KFC is a 3×1-hour Wild Pictures-made observational documentary that takes a look at the KFC empire in the U.K.

Charlotte Moore, controller of BBC One, noted: "All three of these new series take on timely and meaningful subjects that really speak to our audience, and offer an entertaining invitation into completely different worlds. Our Girl is a rite-of-passage story about a young soldier beautifully captured by Lacey Turner. In the same year when our British troops withdraw from Afghanistan, the series will follow the extreme life-changing experiences she is forced to face both on tour and when she returns back home. Comedy has a unique ability to make the ordinary extraordinary and Grey Mates delivers that with a big hit of character. The series follows three newly retired couples who re-discover what it means to have time on their hands, hilariously brought to life by a stellar cast whose relationships are tested in a multitude of ways. And, in documentaries, Inside KFC will go behind the scenes of one of the world’s biggest fast food chains. At a time when our entire nation seems to be obsessed by food, the series will gain unprecedented and surprising access to a global super brand that, despite being on almost every high street up and down the country, we seemingly know very little about."