TV pick: In The Club

A scene from the TV show In the Club.

If you enjoyed warm British ensemble drama Cold Feet, then this new six-part BBC drama from Kay Mellor, writer of The Syndicate and Fat Friends, might be just the ticket.

Fans of Mellor's work will be familiar with her ability to take the ordinary lives of a group of people and find heartfelt drama within, and In The Club is no different.

It revolves around the lives of six pregnant Yorkshire women, who meet in Parent Craft classes, and their variously messy situations.

There's Cold Feet star Hermione Norris as Roanna, a 46-year-old who has chucked in her marriage and successful business to have a baby with her young artist lover.

There's Katherine Parkinson as Kim, a young teacher who is juggling the needs of her girlfriend, their baby-father, and her girlfriend's son.

There's ex Coronation Street actress Jill Halfpenny as Diane, a woman who has long been the adoptive mother to the children of her husband Rick, but who never expected to be able to have her own baby, let alone twins, and is worried how the family will cope.

There's Taj Atwal as newlywed Jasmin, who doesn't know if the father of her baby is her husband or ex-boyfriend. Christine Bottomley plays Vicky, their also-pregnant midwife, who is keeping the father of her baby a secret, mainly because he is a doctor at the hospital.

And there's Hannah Midgley as 15-year-old Rosie who's in denial about her pregnancy.

So far, so ho-hum, but Mellor manages to imbue each episode with plenty of drama (think bank robberies, car crashes and the like) without the stories seeming too far-fetched, and the men who orbit around these pregnant ladies are just as much a part of the action.

When: Sunday, 8.35pm
Where: TV One
What: Cold Feet meets antenatal classes

- TimeOut