A groundbreaking new drama is set to air on Channel 4 next week, featuring scenes which could push the boundaries of what’s acceptable on TV.
The Channel 4 show, titled Shamed, tells the story of a teenage girl named Sarah Ivy, who is forced into performing sex acts on several men.
Young Sarah, who is just 17 in the programme, meets two men on holiday – one of whom is a holiday rep.
And after plying her with alcohol, the pair force her into pleasuring a line-up of men.
Fast forward ten years and Sarah is now a cool and calm 27-year-old, but with a desire for revenge burning in her heart.
She enlists the help of her brother James, and kidnaps the two abusers – who had forgotten all about the incident and who Sarah even is.
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The pair wake up in Sarah’s home-made prison cell, where she forces them to endure what she went through – but on each other.
As the hour-long drama progresses, the connection between the trio is slowly revealed, as well as the way the media was used to shame them all.
Nick Mirsky, Head of Documentaries at Channel 4, said: “This is a modern revenge story brilliantly crafted with a mixture of documentary curiosity and dramatic intensity.
“I am really proud to have it coming from the Documentaries department.”
And writer/dreictor Anthony Philipson said: ‘I’m thrilled to have been given the opportunity by the factual department to write and direct my first ever single drama.
“It’s an important story that deals with a very modern phenomenon but with a surprising and dramatic interpretation.”
Nick Blood, who plays one of the two men, Nathan Bowyar, said: “It thematically explores the impact of social media on our culture, and our relationship to it.
“It’s about accountability and responsibility for things we’ve done in the past, and about gender politics and the inequality between men and women.”
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And Faye Marsay, who has the all-important role of Sarah, added: “And the vulnerability of our young people, and them being influenced by a sexualised culture…”
This sounds like a pretty intense watch – we’re intrigued to see how the one-off drama plays out.