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Yann Demange
Susan Tully
Peter Lydon
Fraser MacDonald
China Moo-Young
Alex Garcia Lopez
Wayne Yip
Greg Brenman
Avril MacRory
Michael Foster
Billie Piper
Tiger Aspect Productions
Silver Apples Media
Artist Rights Group
ITV Studios
Secret Diary of a Call Girl is a British drama television series that aired from 27 September 2007 to 22 March 2011 on ITV2, based on the blog and books by the pseudonymous Belle de Jour. It stars Billie Piper as Belle, a high-end London call girl.
The series was written by Lucy Prebble, who is also the author of the plays The Sugar Syndrome and Enron. The series has been compared to Sex and the City by many critics, mainly due to its humorous approach to sex.[1][2]
The series, set in London, revolves around the life of Hannah Baxter (Billie Piper), a seemingly normal young woman who lives a secret life as a call girl, under the pseudonym Belle. The series focuses on her professional and private lives and the complications as they collide. However, she receives help and advice from her best friend Ben (Iddo Goldberg). In the second series premiere, a new call girl Bambi (Ashley Madekwe) is introduced; Hannah becomes close friends with her and frequently gives her advice regarding prostitution and her personal life.
Hannah, as the main character, also narrates the series, sometimes through voiceovers but more frequently by breaking the fourth wall. During the first series, the episodes are held together by a light story arc; however, Series 2 and 3 rely heavily on story arcs, usually in the form of Hannah's romances, namely with Alex and Duncan.
The rights to the blog were bought by Silverapples Media (Avril MacRory and Paul Duane), who co-produced the series with Tiger Aspect Productions. The series was initially developed with Channel 4[3] and when Channel 4 passed on the project, ITV took over. The series aired in a late-night 10pm slot, as part of ITV2's "XXL Thursday" programming block.
The theme song is an excerpt of "You Know I'm No Good" by Amy Winehouse. The song runs whilst the intertitle plays, showing Belle applying make-up and getting dressed, interspersed with shots of urban London.
Both series 1 and 2 consisted of eight episodes: the series was commissioned for a third series, even before the second series was aired. Series 2 became complicated to film due to Piper's pregnancy and body doubles were hired.[citation needed]
The filming of series 3 began at the start of 2009, once Piper had recovered after the birth of her son, Winston, in October 2008.[4] Piper also stated she would be taking on the role of executive producer of the upcoming series as well.[5] Ahead of the series 3 premiere ITV2 aired a one-off interview between Piper and Brooke Magnanti, who had written under the Belle de Jour pseudonym, entitled, Billie and the Real Belle Bare All.
After the end of Series 3, ITV had not commissioned a fourth series, as well as there was speculation, even amongst the cast,[6] whether or not Secret Diary of a Call Girl would return. However, on 4 May 2010, Katie Begley of the Daily Star reported that Piper and the cast would return for a fourth series, as well as that Piper would earn £2 million for the new series.[7] Piper has stated that the fourth series was to be the final.[8]
The series was first broadcast on 27 September 2007 on ITV2 in the United Kingdom. It was watched by 1.9 million, a record (which has since been beaten by Bionic Woman) for ITV2.[9]
In Canada, the first series began on Showcase on 22 November 2007. The second series debuted on The Movie Network on 19 January 2009.
In the United States, Showtime aired the first series of eight half-hour episodes beginning in June 2008, with a commitment for an additional 12 episodes.[citation needed] Robert Greenblatt, Showtime's president of entertainment, initially considered buying format rights and recasting it with American actors, but he ultimately decided that the original was "fantastic"; Greenblatt also noted that "it's very hard to find American actresses who are comfortable doing nudity."[10] The second series aired on 18 January 2009. On 6 November 2009, Showtime announced that the show's third series would return on 25 January 2010 at 10:00pm. Showtime scheduled the fourth series to premiere 7 April 2011, at 10:30pm.
The first series was released on 7 January 2008 on Region 2 DVD.[11] Series 2 was released in the United Kingdom on 2 March 2009 and like the first series classified 18. On the same day, a four disc box set edition consisting of both series 1 and 2 was released.[12] On both sets, much of the popular music was replaced due to high licensing costs.
The entire series is also available to download on iTunes and to stream on Netflix UK and Lovefilm UK.
In the United States the Region 1 version of series 1 was released on 6 January 2009. Series 2 was released soon afterwards, in June. Again, much of the music was replaced due to high licensing costs.[13]
The television series is rated R18 in New Zealand as it contains sex scenes and offensive language.
The show [...] uses London in somewhat the same way Sex and the City used New York – we see a lot of bright lights, fancy restaurants, and expensive apartments – though there is a sadder, more wistful quality to the photography here, as if Belle were living in a kind of London fog, which, of course, she is.
The New Yorker, noting the similarities between the two shows.[14]
The series was mainly well received by critics, with Tim Goodman of The San Francisco Chronicle saying, "there's surprise at how much you've underestimated its quality."[15] It was graded A− by Entertainment Weekly, which said, "you will find a rather fascinating drama." Entertainment Weekly also commented on Billie Piper's portrayal of Belle, saying, "Piper is extraordinary, intermittently talking right to the camera in a straightforward, conspiratorial manner, the way a prostitute who's really good at her job would talk to a client."[16] It was less well received, however, by The New York Times, which said, "Secret Diary has amusing touches, but not enough to sustain an entire series."[17]
Whilst reviewing Series 3 of Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Gerard O'Donovan of The Telegraph opined that the show focuses too much on Piper's character, saying "All the characters, apart from Belle (Piper), are about as two-dimensional as cardboard cut-outs – and no more engaging."[18]
The series was also accused of glamourising and being a misrepresentation of prostitution.[19]
Piper hit back at the claims saying, "We've only been exposed to the drug-fuelled, sex traffic side – but the fact is, there are middle-class, cultured, well-read women who take part in this job."[20][21]
The first series averaged 1,242,125 viewers in the UK. The following weekly viewership statistics are from the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board.[22]
The series premiered in the United States on Showtime to the highest ratings the cable channel had seen in four years for a television premiere. The series debut reached almost one million viewers, its closest rival, Dexter, premiered to 604,000.[23] The showing held on to an impressive 70% of its lead-in audience that tuned in for the fourth-series premiere of Weeds.
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Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl is a wonderfully intelligent, sexually frank, rollicking novel that introduces us to Nancy Chan, a turn-of-the-millennium call girl who lives and works on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Nancy is full of contradictory desires; she frequently has to choose between making love and making money. On good days, she gets to do both. Surrounded by ...more
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I finished this book purely because I hate to start a book and not finish it. The main character is a very hard to like. This has nothing to do with her job. She is a self-obsessed narcissist and although the book centres around her trying to maintain a romantic relationship while being a prostitute, there is no warmth or connection with the character. She states her feelings so matter of fact that it feels almost robotic and disconnected. It paints an unfair description of her work too. In one ...more
Well, this book definitely provided me with plenty of trashy entertainment and it was great! You can't expect a literary masterpiece when you pick up a book that has condoms on the cover. But it was a very interesting and I couldn't put it down. The author's writing style was very casual and concise. She included just enough detail, which is neccessary in a book about prostitution I guess. This book is an easy, enjoyable, entertaining, but kind of embarassing read (Come on, condoms on the cover? ...more
I can't figure out what rating to give this. I read it almost straight through in every spare moment of three days recently, staying up until 4 one morning, yet, hmm rating as a great book, I can't do it. a quandary for me.(pun intended?from subconscious after fact.) I was *very* momentarily excited to see there was another similar title by Quan. And if I stumble across it I am sure I will devour it similarly.
I think every man should read this as required reading, and then again, I think no boy ...more
Aug 18, 2007 Nancy rated it liked it
This book was pretty much as trashy as you'd expect, with an ending that was so abrupt that it left me wondering as if pages were actually missing from my copy of the book. Nonetheless, it was pretty readable throughout. If you think this book would appeal to you, you're probably right. ...more
I can't believe I read this whole book. The only reason I picked it up at a thrift store was because I really like the Showtime series "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" (based on the memoir that I'm waiting to read called Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl) and I was hoping it had the same flavor. I was wrong. It's not that I was looking for a book of any real substance, but this wasn't even high on the raunch-factor. There was no plot, no story, nothing. And the main character wasn't rem ...more
I had my first and last attempts at reading "chick-lit" last year. I tried really hard but just couldn't get past all the slang and the clothes and shoe references about which I knew nothing. As I wish to remain in my nerdy ignorance I don't see myself dipping my toe into the shallow pool of chick-lit anytime soon. However, in saying all of this I made an exception for this book as it is about the erotic arts and could have proved interesting if I could have gotten past all the tragic designer r ...more
I was seriously disappointed by this book because Quan's short pieces on Salon.com were nothing short of brilliant, an intimate, real look at the life of a career call girl. The book took elements from those pieces and sloppily put them together to form a narrative that was completely unbelievable and unrealistic. I guess it would be OK as a beach book, but only if you get it from the library. ...more
This could have been so much better than it was. The bits about her being a call girl were entertaining but the author seemed to want to make it more than that. The main character in therapy and is planning to get married which is compelling but everything falls incredibly short. She slapped together the ending. Her editor apparently got paid for nothing.
Trashy, yes, but also funny, poignant, and even (at times) thought provoking.
Well, what a mess.
My fist reaction was like, is she going to cover bad writing with shocking scenes on every page? It's not the worst book I've read, but judging by the reviews I must say I expected more. At least better language I guess. One technical detail that made me furious every five sentences (or ever more often) - the author must have been promised one milion dollars every single time she uses exclamation mark. Ugh, looks like manhattan call girls communicate with each other, and not o ...more
Written in diary-like format, which I always like a lot. Makes it super easy to read. The story went on and on and then wrapped up so quickly at the end, you weren’t even sure what happened, which was very very weird. So to sum it up, the ending sucked. Here is what happened before that. Girl is a hooker but her fiancé doesn’t know. She has crazy friends in the business and spends like half her time trying not to let her two worlds overlap. I wish she was more damaged. She wasn’t. I wish this bo ...more
I don't like giving a bad review, but have to be honest - I thought this book was utter tosh. I thought it might be kinda 'Sex and the City Uncut' or something, but I just found it uninteresting, unfunny and completely unsexy.
I don't think my lack of enthusiasm is due to the writing style as I've enjoyed 'diary' books before; but more due to the lack of plot and inability to feel interested in either Nancy's personal or professional life. ...more
Hideous. And it's so rare for me to criticize a novel. But really, the main character has no redeeming qualities, or even a pleasant personality. Whiny, shallow, sickeningly superficial - her clients were the only characters that held even a glimmer of redeeming qualities. The ending, which I held out for in hopes of some depraved drama at the narrator's expense, was sheer disappointment. Not even satisfying if I had been rooting for a "happy ending." ...more
I usually enjoy this kind of trashy chick lit type book, even if it is terribly predictable and silly, but there's nothing wrong with a good light read. However, even by my accepting standards this was a right piece of trash. I don't think anything ever actually happened, and the characters were simply too shallow. ...more
Feb 07, 2009 Holly rated it it was ok
One of the worst books I have ever read. I was reading it while in Puerto Rico visiting my mother and had nothing else to read.
Having recently read both Belle De Jour's "Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl" and David Henry Sterry's "Chicken", it seemed that Tracy Quan's "Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl" was the next natural step. Especially having seen it advertised all over the London Underground. I was hoping it would prove to be yet another look into the world of prostitution from the point of view of the prostitute and would have the same effect of making it seem like they are simply normal people with a slight ...more
Jul 29, 2018 Beth Good rated it did not like it
Stated simply: this is a bad book not worth your time.
For some who used to be a prostitute Tracy Quan writes like a detached bitch with no understanding of the world, but then again maybe that's just her personality.
None of the plot lines are tied up and I mean that NONE of them are. It's sloppy to the point of embarrassing and I can't believe someone actually read this garbage and deemed it good enough to publish.
Do not bother reading it, don't waste you time. There is 100s of better books out ...more
Another book picked up in a hurry at LAX.
From the very first page I was wondering what scheme I could come up with, to be able to return the book (no scheme needed probably, I could have just walked back and returned it, huh?).
But then I kinda got used to it.
The story was VERY basic, although, thanks to the paranoid and detailed nature of Nancy, the main character, now I feel like I know everything about the High Class call girl etiquette.
Good to know…I will make a perfect call girl if I ever c ...more
That's about the only conclusion that I could come to after reading this work.
There were a few problems, mainly with plausibility. For instance: How much of this is really true, knowing her penchant to bend reality? On more than one occasion, she described herself trying to decide which version of the truth to tell her boyfriend. I'm sure that she took a lot more artistic license with readers than she would have us believe. Are there really *so* many people who would pay *so* much for sex that s ...more
I wanted to give this book 4 stars but because of the ending, I am torn between a 3 to 3.5 star rating.
I enjoyed reading this book, despite the stares and disapproving looks I got while riding the train or bus in the city, LOL. The whole call girl business and how women get into the profession is interesting to me in a voyeuristic kind of way. This book tells the story of Nancy Chan, a multi-ethnic/Asian woman who becomes a prostitute after running away from home at 14. She makes her way from pr ...more
So the title and the cover say it all. Literary fiction this is not. But it IS a fun read. What else could a book about a private call girl be?
Yes it's trashy, but you know that before picking it up and so if trashy isn't your thing you should be observant enough to steer clear. That said, if trashy IS your thing and you're in need of a fun escape from the stress that is life, you could do far worse than pick up this book.
It follows Nancy, who is questioning whether she wants to marry her fiance ...more
It always adds an extra bit of spice to a book when someone whose opinion you trust recommends a book to you. You think that this person who knows you reasonably well feels that reading a specific book is likely to resonate with you in some way, and that some sort of deeper insight into life is going to take place.
How empty, disappointed and even confused I feel therefore having struggled through this rather dirge like tome none the wiser as to why it was suggested I might find something from it ...more
Mar 28, 2014 Chantel rated it did not like it
I found these books after watching the Showtime Series which is based on/inspired by them: Secret Diary of a Call Girl. I wanted to read them since I liked the tv series quite a bit. I got these books through Paperbackswap.com because they were not at my library in any form. I thought it was more the protagonist's job or perhaps some steamy sex scenes that made them undesirable to the library. Turns out, it probably had more to do with lackluster demand. The books were alright but nothing outsta ...more
Enjoyed re-reading this book as I read it so long ago I'd pretty much forgotten everything. Interesting book about Nancy, a call girl who wanted to be hooker from a very young age. She wasn't forced into it. Although she doesn't say it in so many words. I think she just liked the money. The only thing I don't get about her is why she ran away from home. She was turning tricks in her hometown. And she makes no mention of her parents being nasty or anything. I have no idea how she manages to keep ...more
I hold my hands up and admit I made a rookie error. I liked a tv series (Secret Diary of a Call Girl) and assumed that a book that covers the same topic would be just as good. I could not have been more wrong. I read this book mostly on the train and had to restrain myself from throwing it out of the window.
The thing I found most irritating was that one of the key 'storylines' was Nancy struggling to maintain her job and her boyfriend. She apparently loves her job and doesn't want to give it up. ...more
Pfff what a BS ending. Nothing much happens in this "diary" - in fact, the only time stuff really does happen (in the last 20 pages) suddenly 6 months go "missing" due to "encryption problems". WTF?
Our main character Tracy Nancy is absolutely unlikeable. She seems disconnected from everything, and looks down on pretty much everyone - friends, family, fiancé,
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