Caitlin Moran has explained why she wanted to bring her version of working class life to TV.

The newspaper columnist and author is launching sitcom Raised By Wolves on Channel 4, which is based on her own upbringing on an estate in Wolverhampton.

After giving a tour of where she grew up, she said: “You never see the working classes turning inwards and having a rich inner life [on TV].

Raised By Wolves
Raised By Wolves (Channel 4)

“You saw what our council estate was like, and there aren’t mad, feral rat children parading around setting fire to cars, screaming and shouting and dealing drugs off tiny bicycles, and having sex with each other around the back of nightclubs. Although that stuff happens, that’s not how most working class people are.”

She added: “Our experience growing up on the estate was that it was mainly quite boring. I would have loved for someone to be burning a mattress on the street corner. We used to watch Crimewatch to get a bit of drama in our lives.”

Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran (Mark Harrison/PA)

Caitlin also said she hoped the programme would be an antidote to the number of TV crime shows where a woman is only cast as a potential victim.

She said: “I’m just so bored of seeing dead women. You just realise how rarely you watch something where you see women getting on with their lives, having a really nice time, being funny and literate and just enjoying being themselves.”

Raised By Wolves begins on Channel 4 on Monday, March 16.