The series was created and written by
Kat Sadler, who also stars. It is directed by
Simon Bird and was produced for Various Artists Ltd and
A24 by Catherine Gosling Fuller, with Phil Clarke, Jack Bayles, Piers Wenger and Sadler as executive producers. It was commissioned after a successful 2021 pilot episode. Sadler appears in the series alongside her real life sister Lizzie Davidson, and they play sisters on the show. Sadler told
The Times that Davidson read the drafts and acted as her “sense check … telling me if I’ve gone too mad”. She described their characters of Josie and Billie as “not us, but they are certainly inspired by bits of us … we have taken some of the worst aspects of ourselves”. She said that their own mother had seen it “and laughed in all the right places”. Bird wrote to Sadler asking to direct the series after watching the 2021 pilot episode, with Sadler and Bird agreeing to keep the series as a comedy rather than veer towards comedy-drama. A second six-part series was commissioned in May 2024.
Filming Filming began in May 2023. Filming took place across
Merseyside with filming locations including
The Wirral and
Knowsley.
Featured Locations • Linghams Booksellers, Heswall - Series 1 • Mini Monster's Funhouse, Gayton - Series 1 • West Kirby bar “The Wild Inn” - Series 1: episode 2 • The Mediterranean Kitchen, Higher Bebington - Series 1: Episode 3 • Wirral Country Park,
Thurstaston - Series 1: Episode 4 •
St Michael's Church, Shotwick - Series 1: Episode 4 • Heswall Hall - Series 1, Episode 5 • Heswall
United Reformed Church,
Heswall, Merseyside - Series 1: Episode 6 • Hooton Hand Car Wash - Series 1: Episode 6 ==Broadcast==