Witch lit is one of the biggest book trends going, #WitchTok has around 37.3 billion views, and now the coven is expanding its reach into the world of TV. 

Domino Day – a new BBC series from Lauren Sequeira, who previously worked on Gangs Of London – is a “dark, sexy and deep” drama about modern dating, feminine power, and magic (obviously). “It has a lot to say about the world,” promises Sequeira.

Watch the trailer for Domino Day below:

Well on your way to being spellbound? Here’s what you need to know.

What’s Domino Day about?

Like so many of us, the show’s protagonist Domino is constantly swiping through potential matches on dating apps. Unlike so many of us, though, she’s not driven by a desire to find love, but by an insatiable need to feed.

That’s right: Domino is a witch who needs to feed on the energy of others, and so uses the likes of Tinder and Match to hunt her prey. Unbeknownst to her, though, she is being tracked by another coven of witches, each of whom is convinced they have to stop her before her powers destroy everyone and everything around her.

“When a dangerous figure from Domino’s past comes back to haunt her, will it be a fresh start for them all, or a final showdown?” teases the synopsis.

Shut up and take our money, quite frankly.

Who stars in Domino Day?

Adult Material star Siena Kelly leads this much-anticipated series as the eponymous Domino – and she’ll be using all of her Bafta-nominated talents to showcase the powerful witch’s vulnerability. Because while Domino is first and foremost a predator, she is also a young woman desperately seeking a community who can help her understand her feelings.

“We meet Domino when she’s in a bad place and it just keeps getting worse,” says Kelly. “She is experiencing this deep hunger that she doesn’t know how to control. The only way she can satiate it is if she feeds on humans, which she doesn’t like doing. It’s scary for her that she can’t control it and she doesn’t even know what she’s trying to control. So it’s her journey of learning how to control this urge and learning where it came from and what it means.”

Kelly is joined by Babirye Bukilwa (We Hunt Together), Poppy Lee Friar (In My Skin), Alisha Bailey (Call The Midwife), Molly Harris (Industry), Sam Howard-Sneyd (Clarity And Chaos), Percelle Ascott (The Innocents), Christopher Jeffers (Rocketman), Jonah Rzeskiewicz (Death On The Nile), Maimuna Memon (Sherwood) and Kris Hitchen (Trigger Point).

What are people saying about Domino Day?

The series, which is filming on location in Manchester, promises to be unlike anything we’ve seen before. Because as executive producer Laurence Bowen explains to Deadline, Sequiera’s story isn’t just rooted in the supernatural: it’s all about identity, sex and dating, too.

“We’re all trying to own our own witch, or, in other words, own our own identity,” he adds.

Elsewhere, Bukilwa has said: “I’d love the audience, especially the audience members that were raised as girls, to take away that their rage is just as important as their innocence and that their rage is a gift. They’re deserving of every single emotion in the spectrum of life. 

“There is no one way to be a woman in society where you’re 100% safe all the time because we live in the patriarchy so I want them to feel empowered to not shy away from the beauty of all their emotions.”

Bailey, meanwhile, adds: “I think throughout the series all the characters go through a journey of self-discovery so I would want the audience to take away that going back to your true self is what’s most important. 

“In life you’re going to go through a lot of trials and tribulations that make you question yourself but reverting back to who you are and acting from that place is probably your best bet. So I hope the audience would take that away from Domino Day.”

When and where can we watch Domino Day?

You can watch Domino Day on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer from Wednesday 31 January at 9pm.

Images: Johan Persson/Sammie/Joseph Sinclair/BBC