Henpocalypse!. Image shows left to right: Bernadette (Elizabeth Berrington), Shelly (Callie Cooke), Zara (Lucie Shorthouse), Veena (Lauren O'Rourke), Jen (Kate O'Flynn)

Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
2023
Channel
BBC Two
Episodes
6 (1 series)
Creator
Caroline Moran
Stars
Elizabeth Berrington, Lucie Shorthouse, Callie Cooke, Lauren O'Rourke, Kate O'Flynn, Ben McGregor, George Somner, Mariam Haque and more
Writer
Caroline Moran
Director
Jack Clough
Producers
Helen Williams, Phil Clarke, Roberto Troni, Tanya Qureshi, Caroline Moran, Jack Bayles, Stephen Walker and Steven Davies
Company

When bridezilla-to-be Zara's hen-do is interrupted by the end of the world, she and her four fellow working-class West Midlander best mates wait out the breakdown of human civilisation in an isolated holiday cottage in Wales.

Emerging from quarantine into the harsh new post-apocalyptic world, they find the male population has almost entirely wiped out and Britain is now a hellscape in which only the very fittest will survive. It's inevitable on a hen do there'll be fractious dynamics between friends so how will they come together to work out what to do with the male stripper, the only man who seems to have survived? Pitted against a group of radicalised Pilates instructors and using sex toys as spears against the enemy, will the dysfunctional friends survive in the harsh new world of societal breakdown?

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Additional details

Production
Location
Camera set-up
Single camera
Picture
Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Tuesday 15th August 2023 at 10pm on BBC Two
Most recent repeats
  • Monday 25th September 2023 at 2:15am on BBC2 - Episode 5
  • Tuesday 19th September 2023 at 2:10am on BBC2 - Episode 5
  • Tuesday 5th September 2023 at 3:05am on BBC2 - Episode 3

Recording details

  • The Wirral
  • Snowdonia

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