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  • ITV
  • Oct 22, 2023
  • ITV
  • Oct 22, 2023
Three Little Birds

Summary In 1957, Leah (Rochelle Neil), her sister Chantrelle (Saffron Coomber) and their friend Hosanna (Yazmin Belo) left Jamaica for a new life in London in this drama series inspired by writer Lenny Henry's family's own experience. [Premiered originally in the UK on ITV on 22 Oct 2023 and will air in the US on BritBox in Feb 2024]

Created By: Lenny Henry

  • ITV
  • Oct 22, 2023
  • ITV
  • Oct 22, 2023
Three Little Birds
Season 1
Season Premiere: Oct 22, 2023
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary In 1957, Leah (Rochelle Neil), her sister Chantrelle (Saffron Coomber) and their friend Hosanna (Yazmin Belo) left Jamaica for a new life in London in this drama series inspired by writer Lenny Henry's family's own experience. [Premiered originally in the UK on ITV on 22 Oct 2023 and will air in the US on BritBox in Feb 2024]

Created By: Lenny Henry

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Episode 1 • Oct 22, 2023
Episode #1.1
Leah and Chantrelle arrive in Britain from Jamaica with their friend Hosanna, who they hope to marry to their brother Aston. Leah searches for work in Dudley while Chantrelle begins a job as a live-in nanny in London.
Episode 2 • Oct 22, 2023
Episode #1.2
Leah and Hosanna settle in Dudley but are met with hostility. Tensions rise as the two question whether they can build a life in the unwelcoming town.
Episode 3 • Oct 22, 2023
Episode #1.3
Leah's life in Dudley is complicated by blossoming romance, Hosanna and Aston take a big step forward, and Chantrelle's big audition unearths alarming truths about life in England.
Episode 4 • Oct 22, 2023
Episode #1.4
Leah and Hosanna resort to desperate measures after a cry for help from Chantrelle.
Episode 5 • Oct 22, 2023
Episode #1.5
Leah fights for Shelton on a work trip. Chantrelle struggles with her trauma. Whilst a devasting confession leaves Hosanna torn.
Episode 6 • Oct 22, 2023
Episode #1.6
Leah's saddled with a colossal problem when a devastating debacle leaves Hosanna's wedding hanging in the balance. Can she get Aston and Hosanna down the aisle?

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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80
Feb 2, 2024
Three Little Birds is intended to be a feelgood series, but it’s not schmaltzy and doesn’t shy away from the issues Jamaicans and other Black people faced in England in the 1950s.
By Joel Keller FULL REVIEW
80
Dec 11, 2023
The drama is still finding its feet and in episode two it does, expanding a story that will doubtless resonate with many children of post-Windrush arrivals, and giving the rest of us a three-dimensional glimpse into a period that documentary can't quite tell in the round.
By Carol Midgley FULL REVIEW
80
Dec 11, 2023
Henry and executive producer Russell T Davies were mindful of their responsibility to tell the story truthfully and unflinchingly, but they never forgot that to succeed, Three Little Birds needed to function at the level of pure drama, to smuggle in its share of soap-opera excitement. In that, it triumphed effortlessly.
By Ed Power FULL REVIEW
80
Dec 11, 2023
All are immensely sympathetic characters, played with a vivid sensitivity.
By Sean O'Grady FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 11, 2023
At times it has the gentle, warm glow and period details of Call the Midwife. Then some unpleasantness occurs, but it lacks punch. It’s a likeable drama that could have offered more.
By Anita Singh FULL REVIEW
40
Dec 11, 2023
Three Little Birds exhibits deep reverence for its characters, but it doesn’t really seem to know them. And while respect for the Windrush generation is entirely appropriate – especially after the profound disrespect demonstrated by successive home secretaries – it doesn’t lend itself to a satisfying, engaging television drama.
By Ellen E Jones FULL REVIEW

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