The Ice Cream Girls
| The Ice Cream Girls | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Crime drama |
| Created by | Dorothy Koomson |
| Written by | Kate Brooke |
| Directed by | Dan Zeff |
| Starring |
Lorraine Burroughs Jodhi May Martin Compston Nicholas Pinnock Georgina Campbell Holli Dempsey Dominique Jackson Bryan Dick |
| Composer(s) | Samuel Sim |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 3 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Andy Harries |
| Producer(s) | Lucy Dyke James Flynn Ronan Flynn |
| Location(s) | Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland |
| Cinematography | Martin Fuhrer |
| Editor(s) | Úna Ní Dhonghaíle |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Left Bank Pictures |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV, STV, UTV |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 19 April – 3 May 2013 |
The Ice Cream Girls is a three-part British television crime drama, first broadcast in 2013, based on the bestselling novel by Dorothy Koomson. The story follows two vulnerable teenage girls, Serena Gorringe (Lorraine Burroughs) and Poppy Carlisle (Jodhi May), who in the summer of 1995, are accused of murdering their schoolteacher, Marcus Hansley (Martin Compston) after becoming involved in a tryst of violence and sexual abuse. Although Serena is acquitted, Poppy is convicted of murder. In the following years, the two girls lead very different lives - Poppy's family rebuff her, leaving her to serve her prison sentence alone. Serena, however, finds love with childhood sweetheart Evan (Nicholas Pinnock) and has a daughter, Verity (Dominique Jackson).
But seventeen years later, Poppy and Serena are unexpectedly reunited, and they are forced to confront each other and reveal the truth behind their dark, shared history. The series, broadcast on ITV, was shot in Bray, County Wicklow, which is used to represent the town of Brighton. The series achieved good viewing figures, with the first episode gathering 5.53 million, 4.83 million tuning in for the second episode and 5.18 million for the final episode. Notably, the series has never been released on DVD.
Sam Wollaston of The Guardian said of the first episode; "There's a nagging little bell going off in my head during the first of three episodes of The Ice Cream Girls. And it's getting louder. Someone leaves prison; there's the whiff of a miscarriage of justice; a family moves to the seaside, by Volvo, for a fresh start; then FLASHBACK! – bad shit happened in the past; now it's time for it to catch up. Got it! The Poison Tree, which aired just a few months ago on the same channel. They love the old prison-Volvo-to-the-coast-flashback-novel psychological-thriller adaptation at ITV. That's not to say there's not plenty of intrigue here. Serena (Lorraine Burroughs) returns to her childhood town with her new family, to a dying mother and to terrible memories. Of a rape, a murder, and another girl, Poppy (Jodhi May), who was convicted of murder – of a teacher who abused them both – but may not have done it.
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