Everything I Know About Love (TV series)

Not to be confused with Everything I Know About Love.

Everything I Know About Love is a British comedy-drama television series based on Dolly Alderton's fictionalised memoir of the same name, adapted by Alderton herself and produced by Working Title Television for BBC One and Peacock. The seven-part series premiered on 7 June 2022 in the UK. The series later premiered on NBCUniversal's Peacock streaming service in the US on 25 August 2022, with all seven parts dropping at once together.

Everything I Know About Love
Based on	Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
Written by	Dolly Alderton
Directed by	China Moo-Young & Julia Ford
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	7
Production
Executive producers	Tim Bevan Eric Fellner Surian Fletcher-Jones Jo McClellan
Producer	Simon Maloney
Production companies	Working Title Television Universal International Studios
Original release
Network	BBC One (UK) Peacock (US)
Release	8 June (2022-06-08) – 21 July 2022 (2022-07-21)

Cast and characters

• Emma Appleton as Maggie
• Bel Powley as Birdy
• Marli Siu as Nell
• Aliyah Odoffin as Amara
• Connor Finch as Street Baxter
• Ryan Bown as Nathan
• Jordan Peters as Neil
• Juliet Cowan as Joan
• Alexander Lincoln as Rege
• Jill Halfpenny as Roisin
• Craig Parkinson as James

Production

The adaptation was announced at the May 2021 BBC Drama Preview and as part of Working Title Television's then upcoming slate. Alderton herself would write the series and China Moo-Young would direct. Producers included Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Surian Fletcher-Jones, and Jo McClellan.^[1]

It was announced in August 2021 that Emma Appleton and Bel Powley would star in the series alongside Marli Siu, Aliyah Odoffin, Jordan Peters, Connor Finch, and Ryan Bown.^[2]

Principal photography took place in London and Manchester.

Reception

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 94% approval rating with an average rating of 7.8/10, based on 18 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Frothy and a tad bit frivolous, Everything I Know About Love is less about lessons learned than the joy of the journey -- and it's an absolute blast in the bargain."^[3] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 73 out of 100 based on 8 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[4]