The BBC is making a feature-length drama about the remarkable true story of one of the world’s first medical trials for the drug that became Viagra, which once again pairs It’s A Sin’s Russell T.
Davies with Nicola Shindler. Shindler’s Quay Street and Welsh indie Boom are behind Men Up, starring the likes of Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones, Misfits, Riviera), Aneurin Barnard (Dunkirk, The Pact), Alexandra Roach and Steffan Rhodri (House of the Dragon), and penned by Matthew Barry.
Davies and Shindler are EPs. Years before the little blue pill changed the lives for millions across the globe, a group of ordinary middle-aged Welsh men underwent the extraordinary, taking part in one of the first clinical trials for an unknown drug which later became Viagra.
This group of men had one thing in common: impotency, and were living their lives drowned in shame and silence before being offered a lifeline.
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