| Genre: | Comedy drama[1] |
| Creator: | Kay Mellor |
| Director: | Kay Mellor Dominic Leclerc |
| Starring: | Phyllis Logan Miranda Richardson Zoë Wanamaker Daisy Head Matthew Lewis |
| Theme Music Composer: | Hal Lindes |
| Opentheme: | "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" |
| Endtheme: | Hal Lindes |
| Composer: | Hal Lindes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Num Series: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 6 |
| List Episodes: |
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| Executive Producer: | Kay Mellor Polly Hill |
| Producer: | Josh Dynevor |
| Editor: | Kay Mellor |
| Location: | Leeds, Yorkshire, England |
| Runtime: | 46 minutes (without adverts) 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Company: | Rollem Productions |
| Channel: | ITV |
Girlfriends is a British comedy-drama television series, first broadcast on ITV on 3 January 2018. It follows the lives of three middle-aged women who have been friends since their teenage years. The series was written, created and directed by Kay Mellor. The drama was not renewed for a second series.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds an approval rating of 86% with an average rating of 7.3/10 based on 14 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Girlfriends offers an honest -- and frequently hilarious -- look at a time of life too often marginalized on TV, with wonderfully well-acted results."[2] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the season a score of 87 out of 100 based on 4 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[3]