A female-led “spiritual successor” to “Peaky Blinders” is in the works at BBC One. Deadline reports that “Dope Girls” will delve “into the history of Soho’s criminal underworld.”
Set in the early 20th century, the six-part series is reportedly partly based on “the true story of conservative, god-fearing 42-year old single mother Kate Meyrick, who builds a nightclub empire and criminal family enterprise and becomes the most dangerous woman in London as well as a competitor to Brilliant Chang, the baron of Soho’s gritty underworld. Her nightclubs are fuelled by drugs and alcohol that allow for a generation of World War I veterans and survivors to forget their trauma and