Happy Valley creator Sally Wainwright has revealed a huge Easter egg in her new BBC drama, Riot Women, that even die-hard fans of the Sarah Lancashire -starring police drama might have missed. The new series, which stars the likes of Tamsin Greig ( Friday Night Dinner ), Joanna Scanlan ( The Thick of It ) and Lorraine Ashbourne ( Sherwood ), follows a group of middle aged women who form a punk rock band while juggling high-pressure jobs, grown-up children and elderly parents.

But it was Taj Atwal's character, police officer Nisha Lal, who was used to reference the BAFTA-winning crime drama. Writer Sally decided to honour beloved protagonist, police sergeant Catherine Cawood (Lancashire), by giving Nisha the same collar number, which sits on the shoulder pads of her police uni

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