Caitlin Moran launches ambitious crowdfunding appeal

Caitlin Moran and her sister Caroline have launched an ambitious crowdfunding campaign to make a new series of Raised By Wolves.

They are trying to raise £320,000 to make just one episode, with more promised if they overshoot the target.

After the show was cancelled by Channel 4 earlier this year, more than 20,000 fans signed up to the Facebook page calling for its return.

Now the Morans, who wrote the show based on their teenage experiences growing up in Wolverhampton, have launched the next stage – seeking donations of between £5 and £5,000 on Kickstarter.

Star Rebekah Staton made this video with Caitlin Moran to help the 'hipster begging' campaign:

If funded, the new episode is expected by December 2017, but a full series might take longer. It will be available as a download and on DVD to those who pledge £24 or more.

In a statement, the Moran sisters said: 'In 2010, we got so drunk during a night out that we ended up climbing into a skip. As we lay there, on our backs, talking about how much our childhoods made us laugh, Caz said: "You know what - we should write a sitcom about it. After all, how many shows are there about huge, working-class, home-educated families from Wolverhampton?"

'And Caitlin replied: "Yes - to be fair, the bits everyone likes the best in my million-selling book, How To Be A Woman, are about my teenage years, where you and I are sharing a bunkbed, and we were arguing continually about my vagina, and how much you didn't want to talk about it." And we fought in the skip for a long time.  And when we finally got out of the skip, we wrote Raised By Wolves.

Raised By Wolves won the Rose d'Or for best sitcom of 2016 and received positive reviews, with the Daily Telegraph calling it 'terrific' and 'refreshingly honest' .

It also starred Helen Monks, Alexa Davies and Philip Jackson and ran for 13 episodes over two series, starting with a 2013 pilot, with the show's second season averaging a consolidated audience of more than 1 million viewers.

Raised by Wolves might also get a new lease of life in America, where it is being adapted for American TV by Diablo Cody, the writer of Juno.

Published: 18 Oct 2016