The BBC has revealed first-look pictures of Charlotte Regan’s hotly tipped debut TV series Mint, a darkly comic and unconventional drama about a crime family’s inner life, produced by House Productions (Sherwood, Conclave, The Iron Claw) and Fearless Minds (The Critic, Soulmates) for BBC iPlayer and BBC One.
Starring Emma Laird (The Brutalist, Mayor of Kingstown) and acting newcomer Ben Coyle-Larner (better known as hip hop musician Loyle Carner) the images give a flavour of the highly anticipated drama and its lead characters Shannon and Arran who star in Regan’s story about soaring romance, crushing heartbreak and what love might feel like when everyone outside of your family is terrified of you.
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Mint creator, writer and director Regan is the acclaimed filmmaker behind the award-winning Scrapper, her debut feature film which won the Grand Jury Prize for the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. She began her career behind the camera as a paparazzi photographer, photographing film sets such as Skyfall, which she later told The Guardian inspired her to become a filmmaker herself. She started filming music promos aged just 15, and went on to direct more than 200 of them, including for Mumford & Sons (Beloved) and Stereophonics (Fly Like an Eagle). She has also taken numerous short films around the international festival circuit, and in 2017 was talent-spotted by Michael Fassbender’s production company, Finn McCool Films. This led to the development of Scrapper, about a 12-year-old girl reunited with her father following the death of her mother.
Eight-part series Mint filmed in Glasgow earlier this year, and the cast also includes Sam Riley (Firebrand, Control), Laura Fraser (Breaking Bad, Patience), Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy, Black Mirror) and Lindsay Duncan (TrueLove, Birdman).
Mint was commissioning by Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama. It is created, written, directed and executive produced by Regan and made for BBC iPlayer and BBC One by House Productions, part of BBC Studios, and Fearless Minds. It is produced by Angus Lamont (The Wonder, Tin Star), and executive produced by Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Theo Barrowclough for House Productions, Jolyon Symonds for Fearless Minds, and Rebecca Ferguson for the BBC. BBC Studios will handle global sales and present the series to international buyers at MIPCOM 2025.
