🎸Riot Women (2025) – When Life Turns Loud, Turn Up the Volume: Cast, Plot, Release Date & Where to Watch 💥🤘

📅 Streaming from October 12 on BBC iPlayer (UK)🇬🇧

Network: BBC One

Produced by: Drama Republic

🖋️ Created by: Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley, Gentleman Jack)

🎤 Starring: Joanna Scanlan, Rosalie Craig, Lorraine Ashbourne, Tamsin Greig, and Amelia Bullmore

💥 “This is our time.”

Five women. One band. A lifetime of frustration, laughter, and love — finally breaking free in a blaze of punk-rock rebellion. Riot Women is not just another music drama; it’s a thunderous, funny, and deeply emotional declaration of self-worth from women who’ve spent far too long turning down the volume.

🎶 The Plot: Five Women. One Riot.

Meet Beth, a teacher hanging by a thread. Jess, a pub landlady who keeps everyone’s secrets but her own. Holly, a police officer with a badge and a bruised heart. Yvonne, a midwife who’s tired of fixing everyone else’s chaos. And Kitty — a sharp-tongued, shoplifting free spirit who refuses to play by anyone’s rules.

When these five menopausal misfits join forces to form a punk rock band for a small-town talent contest, they think it’s just for laughs — a last hurrah before real life pulls them back down. But once they pick up the mics and guitars, something inside them ignites.

“We’ve been quiet for too long. Time to make some noise!”

Their rehearsals are messy, their performances chaotic, but the connection they build is electric. And as the music grows louder, so do the truths they’ve buried deep — especially a secret that binds Beth and Kitty in ways neither ever imagined.

💔 Music, Mayhem, and Midlife Revolution

At its heart, Riot Women is about more than forming a band — it’s about reclaiming voice, identity, and power. Between juggling careers, grown-up kids, fading marriages, and dating disasters, these women rediscover who they were before the world told them to “calm down.”

The series is unapologetically raw, laugh-out-loud funny, and refreshingly human — a love letter to friendship, imperfection, and the chaos of starting over at any age.

As Kitty growls in one of the show’s standout moments:

“You call it a midlife crisis. I call it finally waking up.”

🎸 The Women Behind the Riot

🔥 Joanna Scanlan (After Love) brings depth and vulnerability to Beth — a woman torn between past regrets and present desires.

🔥 Rosalie Craig (Company) shines as Kitty, the reckless spark that lights the match.

🔥 Lorraine Ashbourne, Tamsin Greig, and Amelia Bullmore round out the lineup, each adding humor, heart, and heartbreak to this all-too-relatable journey.

And with Sally Wainwright — the creative genius behind Happy Valley — writing the show, expect sharp wit, emotional honesty, and dialogue that hits like a drumbeat straight to the soul.

💬 Why This Series Rocks

Riot Women is punk energy reimagined for adulthood — a story that says you’re never too old, too tired, or too late to start again. The guitars might be out of tune, but the message rings loud and clear:

“Life doesn’t end at 50. It just starts playing louder.” 🎸

With themes of sisterhood, rebellion, and rediscovery, it serves as a reminder that sometimes the best way to heal is to make some noise — and sometimes, that noise can change everything.

🎧 Streaming Details

• Premiere: October 12, 2025

• Where to Watch: BBC One and BBC iPlayer (UK) | BritBox (US)

• Episodes: 6 (approx. 57 minutes each)

• Produced by: Drama Republic

🤘 Final Chord: The Riot Begins

Prepare for tears, laughter, and some serious guitar feedback — because Riot Women isn’t just a show, it’s a movement. A celebration of defiance, friendship, and the fierce, funny women who prove that even when life turns up the heat… You can always turn the volume up.

💥 “This is our time.”

RIOT WOMEN — streaming from October 12 on BBC iPlayer.Turn on, tune in, and let the rebellion begin. 🎤🔥