Drifters | |
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Genre | Sitcom |
Created by | Jessica Knappett |
Written by | Jessica Knappett Phoebe Waller-Bridge Joe Tucker Lloyd Woolf Emerald Fennell |
Directed by | Simon Delaney Tom Marshall Al Campbell |
Starring |
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Opening theme | "Leeds United" by Amanda Palmer |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of series | 4 |
No. of episodes | 24 |
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Executive producer(s) | Simon Wilson Damon Beesley Iain Morris |
Running time | 23 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | E4 |
Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
Original release | 31 October 2013 | – present
External links | |
Website |
Drifters is a British sitcom that stars Jessica Knappett, Lydia Rose Bewley and Lauren O'Rourke as three female friends who live in Leeds following their graduation from university. All three actresses had previously appeared together in The Inbetweeners Movie.
The series first aired on E4 on 31 October 2013. On 9 May 2014, Channel 4 announced they had ordered a second series of Drifters. The new series began airing on E4 on 23 October 2014 and concluded on 27 November 2014. It began transmission on 23 October 2014, with each episode of the series premièring a week before its initial E4 broadcast on 4oD. On 9 June 2015, Channel 4 announced that a third series had been commissioned. It began broadcasting on 22 October 2015 and finished on 26 November 2015. In March 2016, Knappett confirmed that a fourth series has been commissioned. It began broadcasting on 10 October 2016.
The first series of Drifters was released on 25 November 2013 by 4DVD despite the sixth episode not being broadcast until 28 November 2013. The second series was released on 8 December 2014 by 4DVD.