BritBox To Stream 'Lost Boys & Fairies' in 2025
Sion Daniel Young and Fra Fee in 'Lost Boys & Fairies'
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Lost Boys & Fairies was one of the BBC's more anticipated family dramas for 2024, and it did not disappoint when it aired its three-episode run in June. The LGBTQ+ adoption drama stars Sion Daniel Young (Slow Horses) and Fra Fee (Les Misérables) as Welsh couple Gabriel and Andy, ready to take their eight-year relationship to the next level by starting a family. However, their adoption journey turns out to be nothing like either of them expected, as their hopes for a girl turn into falling in love with a little boy who it turns out they need in their lives as much as he needs them as parental figures.
The series received wide acclaim from the British press when it initially debuted at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival and took home the Official Competition Award for 2024 at Germany's Seriencamp and the Best European Fiction Award 2024 at France's Festival De La Fiction. Now, it has sold worldwide, with TV network ARTE planning to air it in France and Germany, Stan streaming it in Australia, and BritBox, which will stream it in the U.S. and Canadian markets in 2025. (The miniseries already played SeriesFest 2024 in Denver and will come to October's OutFest 2024 in Orlando.)
A three-episode standalone, it is the inaugural TV series from production outfit Duck Soup Films and one of the first significant TV series from Welsh playwright Dafydd James, who is best known in the U.K. for his creation Sue Timms, from the stage musicals My Name is Sue and the follow-up Songs Across the Sueniverse.
Here's the series synopsis:
Lost Boys & Fairies follows Gabriel, a performance artist extraordinaire at the spectacular queer club space Neverland. With his partner, Andy, he longs to take their relationship to the next level by adopting a child. Although the couple initially wanted to adopt a girl, they meet and begin to grow fond of Jake, a child placed in foster care after being removed from his violent father. We follow Gabe on a coming of middle-age journey as he faces his own childhood trauma so he can help Jake deal with his. Fusing queer culture with powerful family drama, Lost Boys & Fairies is filled to the brim with humour, redemption, and love.
Young and Fee are joined by Leo Harris (Becoming Elizabeth) as Jake, plus Elizabeth Berrington (Fifteen-Love), Sharon D. Clarke (Inspector Ellis), Maria Doyle Kennedy (Outlander), Arwel Gruffydd (Tess of the D’Urbervilles), Shaheen Jafargholi (Wreck), Mali Ann Rees (The Pact), William Thomas (Steeltown Murders), Gwyneth Keyworth (The Trouble With Maggie Cole), and Gwawr Loader (Hidden).
Daf James conceived of and wrote all three episodes of Lost Boys & Fairies as part of the TV Drama Writers' Programme known as the "Welsh Voices" project with the BBC Writers' Room. Director James Kent (The Capture) helmed all episodes; Duck Soup Films produced for BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
Lost Boys & Fairies does not yet have an official premiere date on BritBox, but it is confirmed to arrive in 2025.
