BBC2 has released a trailer for its forthcoming series Boy Meets Girl, the first British sitcom to feature a transgender actor in the lead role. A winner of the Trans Comedy Award, a talent search run as part of the BBC’s Writers Room project, Boy Meets Girl stars Rebecca Root as Judy, a trans woman who begins a relationship with Leo (Harry Hepple).
While the commissioning of Boy Meets Girl is a revolutionary moment in British television, the trailer suggests the series itself is likely to be a gentle comedy in the vein of Hebburn, featuring remote controls being dropped in the spaghetti and jokes about the age gap between Leo and Judy. That’s not to say that the show isn’t willing to tackle its major social themes head-on: in the trailer Judy’s mother responds touchingly to someone who asks if she misses having a son. “I never had a son, she says. “I had a daughter who came out a bit wrong.”
Boy Meets Girl airs later this year on BBC2.
