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‘A modern masterpiece’: writer Jack Thorne’s best TV shows – from This Is England to Adolescence

As his new version of Lord of the Flies comes to the BBC, we count down the 20 boldest and most moving productions by the quintuple Bafta-winning scriptwriter

The Guardian - UK

Where are the Shirley Valentines today?

The news that the actor Pauline Collins had died touched a nerve for Terri White. Brought up in a working-class culture, surrounded by Shirley Valentines (Rita, Sue and Bob too), she wondered, where on earth did they all go?

The Independent UK

The Guide #201: our readers’ 21st-century pantheon: the culture you loved (that we missed)

In this week’s newsletter: Doctor Who, Twin Peaks, Nina Conti and Sabrina Carpenter all make the cut in your passionate picks from the past 25 years

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Shane Meadows: Celebrated British director returns with first film in 17 years

The director said he’s ‘beyond excited’ about the new drama

The Independent UK

Adolescence to The Virtues: the most heartbreaking TV of all time

The gut-wrenching crime drama is so poignant it will leave you in pieces. But it’s far from the only televisual masterpiece to deliver a devastating emotional punch …

The Guardian - UK

Adolescence's Stephen Graham offered to adopt This Is England co-star Thomas Turgoose after mother's death

Stephen Graham is known for playing family men onscreen, but his paternal nature once saw him offer to adopt a young co-star who had lost his mother.

Evening Standard

Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn

Exclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privately

The Guardian - UK

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Stephen Graham is right. Television has forgotten how funny working-class people are

COMMENT: The British actor has said that TV needs to stop making working-class families look miserable. Chris Harvey, who couldn’t agree more, argues that if you don’t have a broad enough spread of writers, stereotypes begin to take hold

The Independent UK

Beware the resurrection: What Oasis can learn from the Stone Roses reunion

IN FOCUS: Fourteen years ago, one of the greatest and best-loved bands from the 1990s Madchester scene announced their reunion. Five years later, it was all over, the excitement of their comeback extinguished by underwhelming gigs and dubious new material. As Oasis prepare to stage their own comeback this summer,…

The Independent UK

Showtrial: who plays who in season two of the hit BBC drama

From Michael Socha to Adeel Akhtar, we break down the cast - and where you might have seen them before

Evening Standard

Gallaghers could earn more from Oasis reunion than ‘they made in entire 90s’

Birmingham City University estimates tour could bring £400m in sales, with Liam and Noel in line to each earn £50m

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: roll up, roll up for the Big Brother finale

£100,000 is up for grabs as the cult reality TV series draws to a close. Plus: the Country Music Awards, straight outta Nashville, Tennessee. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

The Killer to Planet of the Apes: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Michael Fassbender stars in David Fincher’s gripping hitman triller, while Franklin J Schaffner’s 1968 original still casts a spell of wonder and horror

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Our screen industry is a hotbed of talent, but too many young people in Britain see it as unattainable

Without funds, the simplest hurdles can seem insurmountable for anyone starting out says the CEO of BAFTA

Evening Standard

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From Peaky Blinders to Band of Brothers: it’s Stephen Graham’s 20 best TV roles ever

His impeccable taste has seen him star in incredible shows from Line of Duty to This Is England. We rank his performances

The Independent UK

Hannah Walters on Boiling Point and filming with her husband Stephen Graham: ‘Behind every little Scouser, there’s a strong Midlander’

Over the past two decades, Walters has juggled acting, raising children, and helping ‘Mr G’ make brilliant career choices. Now, she’s producing, too. She tells Ellie Harrison why this is her moment

The Guardian - UK

Shane Meadows: ‘When I worked at Alton Towers, I’d ride the Thunder Looper four times each lunch break’

The film director answers your questions about wearing a dress to school, being courted by Disney for the teen market and the exorcism horror project he’s keen to get off the ground

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for Shane Meadows

As his 2004 thriller Dead Man’s Shoes is rereleased, here’s your chance to ask the This Is England director what you’ve always wanted to know

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GOAT to release their sinister proggy soundtrack to The Gallows Pole

Secretive Swedes GOAT will release their soundtrack to the BBC's The Gallows Pole digitally in July

The Guardian - UK

‘Definitely a lot busier’: TV show lures visitors to coin gang’s Yorkshire home

Associations with 18-century counterfeiters can be seen across Calderdale, where The Gallows Pole tourism has mainly been welcomed

The Week

The Gallows Pole review: Shane Meadows’ first foray into period drama

Benjamin Myers’ 2017 novel “The Gallows Pole” told the “true-life tale of the 18th century gang of coin clippers led by ‘King’ David Hartley, whose illegal work and attendant violence came to dominate Cragg Vale in West Yorkshire”, said Lucy Mangan in The Guardian. Now, it’s been turned into a…

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Succession; The Gallows Pole; Changing Ends; University Challenge – review

Succession bows out in Shakespearean style; Shane Meadows changes tack with a gobby, grubby period drama; Alan Carr meets his sitcom younger self; and a TV beast exits with a smile…

Manchester Evening News

The Gallows Pole: The real-life grisly story of the Cragg Vale Coiners

Directed by This Is England creator Shane Meadows, the biopic tells the tale of the deadly forgery gang who nearly sank the economy of 18th Century Britain

The Independent UK

The Gallows Pole review: A very self-consciously different kind of period drama

Shane Meadows’s latest TV venture could have been cracking – but it’s just plain bewildering

The Guardian - UK

The Gallows Pole review – Shane Meadows’s period drama is an absolute must-see

The director of This is England’s take on a novel about an 18th-century counterfeiting gang is funny, moving, shocking and totally compelling. He has effortlessly reinvented a whole genre

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