Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About Love: The Morning Show and The Witcher stars lead star-studded cast

The author published the best-selling memoir in 2018 (Picture: David Fisher/REX)

Dolly Alderton’s best-selling memoir Everything I Know About Love is being adapted for TV, with The Morning Show actress Bel Powley set to lead the cast. 

Alderton’s coming-of-age story is the basis of the forthcoming seven-part BBC series which follows two childhood best friends, Maggie and Birdy, as they try to survive their 20s, bad dates, heartaches and humiliations.

Bel, who is a former Bafta Rising Star award nominee, made her earliest TV appearance in CBBC series M.I. High, before starring in Benidorm, A Royal Night Out, The Diary of a Teenage Girl – for which she won the Trophee Chopard award at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

She’s joined by The Witcher and Traitors actress Emma Appleton, who will portray Maggie.

Joining her in the cast of Everything I Know About Love are Marli Siu, previously seen in Amazon Prime series Alex Rider, who will play Nell, and Jordan Peters, who recently starred in Gangs Of London, who will portray Neil.

Aliyah Odoffin will play as Amara, Connor Finch playing Street, and Ryan Brown stars as Nathan. Both will make their on-screen TV debuts in the programme.

Bel Powley will lead the cast of the new seven-part series (Picture: Jeff Spicer/BFC/Getty Images)

Alderton said: ‘I am beyond thrilled with every actor we have on board for Everything I Know About Love.

‘Aisha Bywaters (the series casting director) has helped us find our dream cast and we are so excited to see them inhabit the world of the show and bring its stories and relationships to life.’

Everything I Know About Love is set in a house-share in London in 2012, with flashbacks to adolescence in the early 2000s.

Emma Appleton’s biggest role to date came in The Witcher (Picture: Katalin Vermes/Netflix)

The memoir won the National Book Award for autobiography in 2018, and was shortlisted for the non-fiction narrative book of the year in the British Book Awards in 2019.

The show’s director, China Moo-Young, said: ‘We have a sublime cast for Everything I Know About Love and I’m so excited to see them bring all the heart and humour of Dolly’s scripts to life on screen.’

Moo-Young has previously directed episodes of crime drama Pennyworth, paranormal TV series The Rook, and period drama Harlots.

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