Our Girl
British television military drama series (2013-2020) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Our Girl is a British military drama television series, written and created by Tony Grounds, first broadcast on BBC One on 24 March 2013.[4] The series initially starred Lacey Turner as Molly Dawes, a young working-class woman, who joins the British Army after deciding her life is going down the drain.[4] Following the feature-length pilot episode, a full series of five episodes was commissioned, commencing broadcast on 21 September 2014.[4]
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Genre | Military drama |
Created by | Tony Grounds |
Written by | Tony Grounds |
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Opening theme | "War Rages On" — Alex Clare (Series 1) "Hear You Calling" — Birdy (Series 2) "Battlecry" — Jordan Mackampa (Series 3–4) |
Composer | Ben Foster |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 4 |
No. of episodes | 28 (list of episodes) |
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Production locations | Hertfordshire Camp Bastion[1] Army Training Centre, Pirbright[2] South Africa[3] |
Editor | Ben Drury |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company | BBC Studios |
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Network | BBC One |
Release | 24 March 2013 (2013-03-24) – 28 April 2020 (2020-04-28) |
Turner left her role after the first series, and was replaced by Michelle Keegan as the lead character, Lance Corporal Georgie Lane.[5] The second five-episode series began airing on 7 September 2016. An extended third series, comprising 12 episodes, was commissioned in 2017.[6] The first four episodes, known as the Nepal Tour, began broadcasting on 10 October 2017. The remaining eight episodes aired consecutively from 5 June 2018, with Olly Rix joining the cast as new special forces Captain "Bones" McClyde.[7] In January 2019, it was confirmed by the BBC that Keegan would return for a fourth series of six parts; she also announced that this would be her last series. It began broadcasting on 24 March 2020.[8][9] Following Keegan's departure, it was announced in August 2020 that the fourth series of Our Girl was the final series.