It's A Sin: New TV series looks at onset of Aids epidemic in the 1980s   

Years And Years singer Olly Alexander is one of the leads in the Channel 4 drama launching on Friday 
It's A Sin: New TV series looks at onset of Aids epidemic in the 1980s   

It's A Sin: Omari Douglas as Roscoe Babatunde, Nathaniel Curtis as Ash Mukherjee, Olly Alexander as Ritchie Tozer, Callum Scott Howells as Colin Morris-Jones, Lydia West as Jill Baxter. 

The PPE, the paranoia, the distancing and isolation… writer Russell T Davies agrees there are “strange” parallels between the world of his new drama, It’s A Sin – about the Aids epidemic – and the Covid-19 pandemic we are currently living through.

Filming of the five-part series ended a month before the first lockdown in March last year, and now it’s about to air on Channel 4.

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