# Film Club (TV series)
**Film Club** is a six-part British comedy-drama series broadcast on [BBC Three](https://www.edgepedia.org/bbc-three) in 2025, created and written by the actors [Aimee Lou Wood](https://www.edgepedia.org/aimee-lou-wood) and Ralph Davis, in which a housebound young woman runs a weekly themed film club in her mother's garage while hiding romantic feelings for her best friend.[1](https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/film-club/) The entire first series premiered in the United Kingdom on Tuesday 7 October 2025, available on [BBC iPlayer](https://www.edgepedia.org/bbc-iplayer) and broadcast on BBC Three.[2](https://gazettely.com/2025/10/entertainment/film-club-review/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Format | Six-part comedy drama, one series, single-camera, BBC Three and iPlayer[1](https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/film-club/) |
| Creators and writers | Aimee Lou Wood and Ralph Davis, their joint screenwriting debut[3](https://rts.org.uk/article/aimee-lou-wood-and-ralph-davis-co-create-bbc-rom-com-film-club) |
| First broadcast | 7 October 2025, full series on BBC iPlayer and BBC Three[2](https://gazettely.com/2025/10/entertainment/film-club-review/) |
| Production company | Gaumont (UK) for the BBC; commission announced 22 February 2024[3](https://rts.org.uk/article/aimee-lou-wood-and-ralph-davis-co-create-bbc-rom-com-film-club) • [4](https://www.gaumont.com/fr/actualites/la-bbc-a-commande-a-gaumont-uk-film-club-une-nouvelle-serie-romantique) |
| Main cast | Wood as Evie, Nabhaan Rizwan as Noa, Suranne Jones as Suz, Liv Hill as Izzie, Adam Long as Josh, Arian Nik, Fola Evans-Akingbola, Ralph Davis[1](https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/film-club/) |
| Director | Catherine Morshead[1](https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/film-club/) |
| Reception | 90% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer from 10 reviews; 71% on the audience Popcornmeter[5](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/film_club) |
## Premise
Evie (Wood) has not left the house in six months after a "wobble", a mental health crisis whose exact nature is gradually revealed over the six-episode run.[6](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/oct/07/film-club-review-aimee-lou-wood-nabhaan-rizwan) Her escape is Film Club, a weekly session in her mother's garage in which she dresses the space to match the film being shown: tinfoil, tubing and [bubble wrap](https://www.edgepedia.org/bubble-wrap) for *Alien*, huge flowers and lollipops for *The Wizard of Oz*.[6](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/oct/07/film-club-review-aimee-lou-wood-nabhaan-rizwan) She and her best friend Noa (Rizwan), a family lawyer, have run the club since university; by the start of the series it is at week 198 and usually just the two of them.[1](https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/film-club/) • [6](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/oct/07/film-club-review-aimee-lou-wood-nabhaan-rizwan)
The dramatic engine is Noa's announcement that a dream job is taking him across the country, forcing both friends to consider, for the first time, whether they might be more than friends.[1](https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/film-club/) Each episode revolves around a different film, and Evie's life mirrors the film on show; the titles featured include *Alien*, *The Wizard of Oz*, *The Shawshank Redemption*, and *[Bridesmaids](https://www.edgepedia.org/bridesmaids-2011-film)*.[7](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/film-club-aimee-lou-wood-bbc-review-b2840723.html) Evie navigates the situation within her family home, living with her fiercely loving single mother Suz (Jones), sister Izzie (Hill), and boyfriend Josh (Long).[1](https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/film-club/)
When the BBC commissioned the series in February 2024, the love interest was named Tom, and the synopsis described six film clubs left before his departure; in the broadcast series the character is Noa, a family lawyer who is moving to Bristol for a promotion.[3](https://rts.org.uk/article/aimee-lou-wood-and-ralph-davis-co-create-bbc-rom-com-film-club) • [8](https://elpais.com/television/series/el-cineclub/)
## Origins and production
Wood and Davis met at drama school and had wanted to write together from the day they met; during the 2020 lockdown they began writing, thinking about how film and television were helping people get through that time.[9](https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/film-club/interviews/aimee-lou-wood/) Wood said she had watched as many films as physically possible while confined to a small flat, from [Victor Fleming](https://www.edgepedia.org/victor-fleming)'s *The Wizard of Oz* to [Ridley Scott](https://www.edgepedia.org/ridley-scott)'s *Alien*, and landed on the idea of a film club as her coping mechanism turned into a premise.[10](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/film-club-aimee-lou-wood-bbc-b2839984.html) The BBC commissioned the series through Gaumont, with Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, describing the scripts as tender and funny.[4](https://www.gaumont.com/fr/actualites/la-bbc-a-commande-a-gaumont-uk-film-club-une-nouvelle-serie-romantique) Production credits list Catherine Morshead as director and Gaumont as the production company.[1](https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/film-club/)
The cast also includes [Owen Cooper](https://www.edgepedia.org/owen-cooper), fresh off an Emmy win for *[Adolescence](https://www.edgepedia.org/adolescence-tv-series)*, in an underused role as a local truant who calls Evie "Miss Havisham", and Arian Nik and Fola Evans-Akingbola among the credited stars; Davis himself appears in the cast.[7](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/film-club-aimee-lou-wood-bbc-review-b2840723.html) • [1](https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/film-club/) Rotten Tomatoes credits Anna Jordan as screenwriter, while the British Comedy Guide credits Wood and Davis.[5](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/film_club) • [1](https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/film-club/)
## Critical reception
The response divided between warmth and wit. Rotten Tomatoes recorded 90% from 10 professional reviews against a 71% audience score.[5](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/film_club) In The Guardian, Lucy Mangan called it a cute and deeply intelligent comedy about two film-buff friends with unspoken feelings, placed it in a growing subcategory of comedy about women's mental health written by women, and praised Rizwan as "just perfect here".[6](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/oct/07/film-club-review-aimee-lou-wood-nabhaan-rizwan)
Nick Hilton's review in The Independent was negative on the comedy itself: he found the show structurally a sitcom but short on laughs and on earned romance, judged the premise stretched thin across a full series, and argued that recent sitcoms such as *[Starstruck](https://www.edgepedia.org/starstruck-2021-tv-series)* and *Too Much* had handled the subversion of cinematic tropes more effectively.[7](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/film-club-aimee-lou-wood-bbc-review-b2840723.html) Other outlets were warmer; the Big Issue called it a well-observed, quirky family sitcom with heart, and Stylist described it as gloriously funny and endearing.[11](https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/film-club-tv-review/) • [12](https://www.stylist.co.uk/entertainment/tv/aimee-lou-wood-film-club-review/1023263)
## References
1. [Film Club, BBC3 comedy drama, British Comedy Guide](https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/film-club/)
2. [Film Club Review, Gazettely, October 2025](https://gazettely.com/2025/10/entertainment/film-club-review/)
3. [Aimee Lou Wood and Ralph Davis co-create BBC rom-com Film Club, Royal Television Society](https://rts.org.uk/article/aimee-lou-wood-and-ralph-davis-co-create-bbc-rom-com-film-club)
4. [La BBC a commandé à Gaumont UK, FILM CLUB, une nouvelle série romantique, Gaumont](https://www.gaumont.com/fr/actualites/la-bbc-a-commande-a-gaumont-uk-film-club-une-nouvelle-serie-romantique)
5. [Film Club, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/film_club)
6. [Film Club review, Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 7 October 2025](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/oct/07/film-club-review-aimee-lou-wood-nabhaan-rizwan)
7. [Film Club review, Nick Hilton, The Independent, 7 October 2025](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/film-club-aimee-lou-wood-bbc-review-b2840723.html)
8. [El cineclub, El País](https://elpais.com/television/series/el-cineclub/)
9. [Aimee Lou Wood introduces Film Club interview, British Comedy Guide](https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/film-club/interviews/aimee-lou-wood/)
10. [Film Club: Aimee Lou Wood and Nabhaan Rizwan on their new romcom, The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/film-club-aimee-lou-wood-bbc-b2839984.html)
11. [Film Club review, Big Issue](https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/film-club-tv-review/)
12. [Film Club review, Stylist](https://www.stylist.co.uk/entertainment/tv/aimee-lou-wood-film-club-review/1023263)
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