8 h. ago Such Brave Girls is bleakly funny, realistic and truly brave TV

The second season of Kat Sadler’s Bafta-winning series radiates an almost feral comic energy while plumbing the lowest emotional depths

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4 d. ago Kat Sadler on tackling mental illness in Such Brave Girls: ‘I don’t care if it makes people uncomfortable’

The self-deprecating writer and star of BBC Three’s darkest comedy talks to Isobel Lewis about how the single-parent family at the centre of her Bafta-winning show is inspired by life with her own sister and mum – and why she wanted to show serious mental health issues on screen, ‘bones and all’

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4 d. ago Brave cricketer says 50 people tried to help tragic girl who died in tree collapse

A seven-year-old girl has died after a a tree collapsed in an Essex park, which also left a six-year-old girl in critical condition and a further three children with minor injuries

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5 d. ago Such Brave Girls: TV so hilariously savage it will make you yowl with pleasure

Move over Julia Davies and Sharon Horgan – this devastating, ruthless sitcom is basically the British psyche on a screen. It’s just the medicineI love watching real-life siblings on-screen. They bring a knotted history to every interaction, the way they look at one another, or don’t. They may love each other; they’re definitely stuck with each other. Daisy May and Charlie Cooper were the last to bottle such contradiction; I’m delighted we now have Such Brave Girls (BBC One, Wednesday 2 July, 11.40pm), returning for a second series, in which creator Kat Sadler stars alongside her sister Lizzie Davidson. Cattier than Longleat, it features some of the most savage writing on TV, and makes me yowl with pleasure.It’s about traumatised women making terrible choices. Bear with. The ever-excellent Louise Brealey plays Deb, whose husband abandoned his family 10 years ago after popping to the shop for teabags. In financial trouble, she spends her time trying to lock down relatio...

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1 week ago Brave girl, 9, speaks out after shark attack left her hand 'almost completely gone'

Leah Lendel, 9, emerged from the water with her hand hanging 'by a thread' after she was attacked during a family snorkelling adventure off the coast of Florida

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2 w. ago ‘Who else can we annoy with our show?’: Such Brave Girls, Britain’s most gleefully offensive comedy returns

Despite its twisted characters and unremitting plotlines, the Bafta-winning sitcom has become an unlikely hot property for the BBC. The secret, says creator Kat Sadler: dealing with things in ‘the most unenlightened way possible’Few writers take criticism well, fewer actively court it. Kat Sadler, however, has an insatiable appetite for negative feedback. When crafting her BBC sitcom Such Brave Girls, the 31-year-old frequently runs the scripts past her younger sister and co-star Lizzie Davidson – but she isn’t looking for praise. Instead, “she wants you to tear it to pieces”, says Davidson. “She loves it.”“I get off on it,” confirms Sadler, with matter-of-fact melancholy. Continue reading...

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