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‘I’ve seen a lot of great pissheads’: Stephen Graham on booze, Baftas and the return of his bone-crunching boxing thriller

Stephen Graham and Steven Knight had an astonishing 2025. As A Thousand Blows explodes back, they talk about taking decades to become overnight sensations, the Peaky Blinders movie – and why it could be time for a scouse Bond villain

The Guardian - UK

Reputation review – front and swagger in brawling portrait of British male rage

A drug dealer begins to question his life choices but his bullying partner-in-crime refuses to let him go

The Guardian - UK

‘Stephen Graham recognised me from Nando’s’: how James Nelson-Joyce became TV’s hottest rising star

His role in This City Is Ours has had the Liverpool FC squad perform line dances with him, he’s wowed in Black Mirror and he’s bringing Bez’s life to screen. It’s all down to meeting his hero in a chicken restaurant

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Is there going to be a This City Is Ours season 2?

This City Is Ours season 2 could well be on its way as the Liverpool-set crime drama has been a such huge hit.

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James Nelson-Joyce: 'the arts are going to be very beige if they're cut off to working class people'

James Nelson-Joyce is hotly tipped to be the next James Bond and while he is riding high as one of the best acting talents around, he’s also conscious of being that rare thing in the industry: working-class

Evening Standard

The week in TV: This City Is Ours; Love and Loss: The Pandemic 5 Years On; The Studio; The Change – review

Sean Bean plays a scouse drug lord in a superior gangland drama. Elsewhere, a poignant portrait of Covid’s aftermath, Seth Rogen’s Hollywood satire, and the return of Bridget Christie’s out-there menopause comedy

The Guardian - UK

This City Is Ours review – there is zero emotional depth to Sean Bean’s new gang drama

The fantastic performances don’t do enough to lift this scouse Sopranos. There’s an essential emptiness at the core of this generic show

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A conflicted gangster and moral ambivalence elevate This City Is Ours above the average boilerplate crime drama

4/5 This Liverpudlian crime drama views modern masculinity through the unusual lens of a huge cocaine empire

The Independent UK

I'm hooked on every moment of betrayal in This City Is Ours — and Sean Bean is wonderful

This City Is Ours – Sean Bean and Julie Graham head the cast of the compelling Liverpool-set saga dubbed the ‘Scouse Sopranos’

WhatToWatch

This City Is Ours star James Nelson-Joyce: ‘I thought kids like me don’t act’

RISING STARS: The Liverpudlian star of ‘Time’ and ‘A Thousand Blows’ takes on his first leading role in BBC drama ‘This City Is Ours’. He tells Katie Rosseinsky about playing villains, filming on home turf and why his friend Stephen Graham is a ‘saving grace’ for working-class performers

The Independent UK

This City is Ours on BBC One – from Sean Bean to James Nelson-Joyce, who plays who?

The Liverpudlian take on Macbeth is coming to screens soon

Evening Standard

From Peaky Blinders to Rocky, the movies and shows that the cast of A Thousand Blows watched ahead of the new Disney+ drama’s release

The cast of A Thousand Blows reveal the movies and shows that they watched in preparation for the epic new period drama on Disney+ and Hulu.

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Barry Keoghan is charismatic and incredibly sad in the magical British drama Bird

4/5 Andrea Arnold, the filmmaker behind ‘Fish Tank’ and ‘American Honey’, has returned with a sensitive, fairytale-like coming-of-age tale

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