ITV Sets Premiere Date For Ann Summers Drama ‘Brief Encounters’

ITV’s Ann Summers drama Brief Encounters will premiere on Monday 4 July at 9pm.

Set in Sheffield in 1982, Brief Encounters follows Steph, Pauline, Nita and Dawn, four unlikely entrepreneurs who start selling exotic lingerie at house parties, much to the dismay, and often the delight, of the people around them. Each woman is drawn to Ann Summers for her own reasons, from shyness and loneliness to feeling unappreciated at home.

Penelope Wilton, Sophie Rundle, Angela Griffin and Sharon Rooney lead the cast.

The six-part series has been in development at ITV for more than a year and was originally conceived as a comedy. It draws on selected chapters of Good Vibrations, the memoir by Ann Summers’ Jacqueline Gold.

Fay Rusling and Oriane Messina created the drama and wrote the scripts, and executive produce alongside Arabella McGuigan and Danielle Lux. The series is made by CPL Productions, with Jill Robertson, Marek Losey and Joss Agnew directing.