{"id":152369,"date":"2025-06-02T15:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/152369\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T15:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:02:09","slug":"a24-molly-manning-walker-channel-4-teaming-on-womens-soccer-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/152369\/","title":{"rendered":"A24, Molly Manning Walker & Channel 4 Teaming On Women’s Soccer Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Molly Manning Walker<\/a>, whose debut feature How to Have Sex<\/a> won the Cannes Un Certain Regard, is teaming with A24<\/a> and Channel 4<\/a> on her debut TV series.<\/p>\n

\n\tMajor Players<\/a> is\u00a0about two girls on the brink of adulthood and their mission to start a women\u2019s soccer team. The series is\u00a0described as a \u201clove letter to football and a\u00a0funny and wild exploration of young people in London today, tackling topics from friendship to gender politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show is inspired by Manning Walker\u2019s high school experience. She is also the co-founder of Babe City FC, a London-based Sunday league soccer team for women and non-binary people in the film industry, which has more than 180 members.<\/p>\n

\n\tManning Walker is exec producing, directing and co-writing Major Players with Yasmin Joseph, who wrote on Disney+\u2019s A Thousand Blows and A24-Apple\u2019s upcoming Husbands starring Juno Temple. Joseph is also working with A24 on an unannounced Netflix project.<\/p>\n

\n\tManning Walker\u2019s stock has soared since How to Have Sex, which starred Mia McKenna-Bruce as one of three teen best friends who encounter new friendships, sexual pressures and self-discovery during a holiday. The Film4 movie won the Cannes Un Certain Regard 2023 and earned two BAFTA nominations. Major Players is her first TV series. She is also working on an under-wraps irreverent comedy movie with Plan B.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tManning Walker said:\u00a0\u201cI can\u2019t wait to bring Major Players to life with this amazing team.\u00a0It is a coming of age story, filled with first love, grief and bicycle kicks set in your local cage. I\u2019m excited to shine a light on women\u2019s football which I\u2019m a huge fan and supporter of.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChannel 4 drama and Film4 boss Ollie Madden, who worked with Manning Walker on How to Have Sex, described her as \u201cone of the most exciting new filmmaking voices to emerge from the UK in years.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a thrill to be continuing our journey with her on Major Players, alongside Yasmin Joseph and our friends at A24. With its mix of wit, heart and fearless energy, it\u2019s exactly the kind of fresh storytelling we champion across Film4 and Channel 4 Drama,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\n\tMadden has been making a splash since taking over TV drama at Channel 4. He has commissioned the likes of Gillian Anderson-starrer Trespasses, an adaptation of buzzy novel The Rachel Incident and a remake of Channel 4\u2019s most-watched drama of all time, A Woman of Substance.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe will be delighted with Channel 4\u2019s burgeoning relationship with the UK hub of American indie behemoth A24, which is run by ex-BBC execs Piers Wenger and Rose Garnett. A24 and Channel 4 are also working on a comedy together, Leo Reich\u2019s It Gets Worse.<\/a> <\/p>\n

\n\tA24, meanwhile, has entered the TV soccer biz in a big way of late. Alongside Major Players, it is working on a Liverpool FC series<\/a> with Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne. <\/p>\n

\n\tMajor Players was commissioned by Madden, Gwawr Lloyd, Commissioning Editor, Channel 4 Drama and Farhana Bhula, Deputy Director and Head of Creative, Film4. The series will be made by A24 and the producer is Matthew Mulot (Baby Reindeer). Manning Walker will direct and executive produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Molly Manning Walker, whose debut feature How to Have Sex won the Cannes Un Certain Regard, is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[21211,4080,411,77,64951,64952,64953,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-152369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-a24","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-channel-4","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-how-to-have-sex","13":"tag-major-players","14":"tag-molly-manning-walker","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114614379782512697","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}