CAITLIN MORAN is bringing a new sitcom to our television screens to reveal “what working class life is really like”.

The broadcaster and TV critic, who was born in Brighton before moving to Wolverhampton, has co-written the new show, Raised By Wolves, with her her sister Caz.

The pair said they wanted the show to be an antidote to TV crime shows, where a woman’s only purpose is to be bludgeoned to death.

Caitlin 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.”

The six-part Channel 4 series is a modern-day re-imagining of the sisters’ “wonderfully chaotic teenage years” in a large and unconventional working class Wolverhampton family.

The action focuses on “verbally incontinent” home-schooled Germaine, her introverted sister Aretha (based respectively on Caitlin and Caz, played by Helen Monks and Alexa Davies) and their siblings, as they deal with hormones, boredom and under-age drinking in a roost ruled by single mother Della (Rebekah Staton).

The family relied on benefits and, like their Raised By Wolves characters, were home-schooled – which mainly consisted of “watching classic MGM musicals whilst eating lumps of cheese on a stick”, according to Caitlin.

The show has given the sisters the chance not only to celebrate Wolverhampton but to challenge the representation of the working class on shows such as Benefits Street and Shameless.

Caitlin, who wrote a column for The Times by the age of 18, said: “You never see the working classes turning inwards and having a rich inner life on TV.

“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.

“Although that stuff happens, that’s not how most working class people are.

“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.”

l Raised By Wolves beings on Channel 4 on Monday