From Desiree Akhavan

Here's the first trailer for Channel 4's new comedy The Bisexual.

The show stars Desiree Akhavan, who also directs and co-wrote it. She plays New Yorker Leila, who feels lost in London having decided to go on a ‘break’ from her  ten-year relationship with girlfriend and business partner Sadie (Maxine Peake).

She ends up renting a room in Hackney from neurotic washed-up novelist Gabe (Brian Gleeson) and begins sleeping with men but struggles to come out as bisexual to her gay friends.

Channel 4 describe the show as a ‘ raw, funny and unapologetic take on the last taboo’ - bisexuality – and there's an interview with Iranian-American star – whose 2014 movie  Appropriate Behavior wowed the Sundance film festival – here.

The Bisexual comes to Channel 4 at 10pm on October 10th. The full series will be available, free to view or download, on All 4, following transmission of the first episode

Published: 27 Sep 2018