Boy Meets Girl

A few years ago I turned on my laptop and wrote the word ‘LOVE’. That was the original title. I’ve felt a lot of love from a lot of people on this project. If a fraction of that love reaches the audience I’ll feel like it was all worth while.
— Elliott Kerrigan

Boy Meets Girl is the UK's first transgender sitcom, commissioned as a full series on BBC Two for broadcast beginning in September 2015.

Created and written by Elliott Kerrigan and Simon Carlyle, the Manchester-based comedy was discovered through the Trans Comedy Award – a BBC Writers talent search in partnership with Trans Comedy, which offered aspiring writers up to £5,000 for the best script that promoted a positive portrayal of transgender characters.

In 2012, All About Trans held ‘Trans Camp’- an innovative event for transgender people of different backgrounds and media professionals, to come together and look at ways to change the representation and portrayal of trans people in the media. The idea for the Trans Comedy Award was born. It went on to develop and be led by known trans comedians and the BBC Head of Creative Resources.

In November 2012 BBC Writers in partnership with Trans Comedy launched the Trans Comedy Award at the Creative Diversity Network Awards - the Trans Comedy Award was looking for original television comedy shows featuring transgender characters and/or themes. Elliott Kerrigan was one of the winning writers and received further development by the BBC in association with Jon Plowman and Sophie Clarke-Jervoise (Tiger Aspect), towards a staged reading held by BBC Writers. As a result of this 'Boy Meets Girl' was filmed as a studio pilot for the 2014 BBC Salford Comedy Festival’s sitcom showcase and was subsequently commissioned for a full BBC Two series.

'Boy Meets Girl' Series 1 was broadcast on BBC Two beginning on Thursday 3rd September 2015 at 9.30pm.

A second series of 'Boy Meets Girl' was broadcast on BBC Two beginning on Wednesday 6th July 2016.

Boy Meets Girl won the Royal Television Society North West award 2016 for Best Comedy Programme. Elliott Kerrigan was shortlisted for Best Script Writer.