Rikki Beadle Blair

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

A group of gay friends try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights movement.

Kwame, seventeen and straight, is trying to reconcile his estranged fathers, Max and Jordan. He must contend with Max's insistence that he is over Jordan, and Jordan's new relationship with former military man Jonno. Kwame is also trying to attract the girl of his dreams, Asha, and provide support to his two best friends: Dean, a talented footballer struggling with an abusive father and a crush on Max, and skater boy Bambi, trying unsuccessfully to secure a commitment from his older, on-off boyfriend, Robin. Add Max's lesbian sister and new love interest and you're in the middle of a hip, fun, music-filled soap opera.

Seventeen-year-old Randy tries very hard to be a good person. Since his father left, Randy takes care of his emotionally disturbed mother, and he's the kind of friend all of his classmates can depend on. As strong as he seems on the outside, Randy is hiding a secret inner struggle and denial of his true self. It's not until he opens himself up to love that he discovers that becoming a man means accepting who you really are.

Noah and Wade are expecting twins and must shift gears when each is offered their dream job, forcing one of them to assume the traditional stay-at-home parental role...only which one? What gift can life give the man who has everything? The answer is drama – and tons of it!

JJ is an aspiring MC exploding onto London's exciting outlaw urban music scene. He's got the skills, he's got the rhymes, and he's got the drive. But there's a problem — not only is JJ a white boy from the sticks — he's also gay. And gay — in the world of hip-hop and ragga — ain't good. So when JJ resolves to come onstage at the Urban Slam Finals, taking his boyfriend Orlando with him, he knows it's going to get a bit grimy... but when the couple falls foul of the Infamous ghetto-rap crew, the Ilford Illmanics and Orlando is beaten into a state of permanent brain-damage, all of their lives are changed forever in a way no one could have ever foreseen.

Takes a look at gay and straight love among the new millennials. Everything from secret crushes to homophobic attitudes are revealed by the rambunctious students taking Drama and Dance from Loris. None of the teens are what they seem at first glance, with gay hearts lurking behind tough exteriors and straight kids expressing themselves in many ways.

Watch Dad adjust to the news that his teenage son Kwame plans on losing his virginity to a girl! A comedic interplay ensues between father and son over the lack of hetero role models and male identity.

What happens when the hardest team in the Sunday Soccer league comes up against a gay team (pun intended) and finds they've finally met their match? Watch and wince as fledging referee Elton Glixton struggles to control this testosterone tsunami as rude-boy meets bum-boy in this outrageous new comedy set in the crazy gung-ho world of 5-a-side footie.

“A drama set in the sixties in which 11-year-old West Indian boy James is caught between two cultures.” - Radio Times (2000)

An intense young woman stalks a young gay couple in a seaside town. What is the root of her seemingly unhealthy obsession?

A young gay man embarks on an unusual first date in a conquest to take control of his past.

On a South London council estate, Stanlake, an effeminate young African asylum-seeker, is being bullied. Little do the bullies know that Stanlake is also a former child soldier who knows more about combat than they will ever know.

JungleZ is a short film that follows a ragtag group of black LGBT youths who live in a secret squat on a rough estate in Brixton, London. Here they hide from the bullies, drag up, take drugs and daydream - two of them hoping that one day they will be grime stars, like UK duo Krept & Konan, or the UK version of Outcast. But they are gay, poor, outsiders, and know they will never be accepted by the mainstream. With their crew they hatch a plan, and against all odds are determined to perform. Will they succeed? You’ll have to read the script to find out! JungleZ raises issues – race, class, sexuality, mental illness, drugs – but in a high-energy, often hilarious way.

Two lads, two trannies and two high-class hookers in a Soho rickshaw. Fasten your seat-belts it's gonna be a bumpy night.

Presented directly to camera, to the viewer, this poetic short cleverly weaves together five historical testimonies gathered from 1851 to 2020, exposing a circularity of female and racial repression. As the past moves into the present. How much of our history do we carry, and who is responsible for change?