BBC Three Sets Premiere Date For My Left Nut

BBC Three has set a premiere date for My Left Nut, with all three episodes of the comedy drama arriving on BBC iPlayer and BBC Three on Sunday March 1st.

A coming-of-age story about friendship, family and grief, the series is written by Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney, adapted from their award-winning one-man stage play and drawn from Patrick’s own teenage years in Belfast. It marks the pair’s first television commission. Paul Gay directs, and the three-part series is produced by Rollem Productions, with Kay Mellor among the executive producers.

Newcomer Nathan Quinn O’Rawe makes his television debut as fifteen-year-old Mick, a Belfast schoolboy who discovers a swelling on his testicle and struggles to tell anyone. With his father having died years earlier, he confides in his mother, played by Sinéad Keenan, while trying to keep the secret from his friends and the girl he likes.

Set and filmed in Belfast with funding from Northern Ireland Screen, the series was commissioned by BBC Three controller Fiona Campbell and BBC drama controller Piers Wenger. It later airs weekly on BBC One.