The four-part TV sequel This Is England '86 picks up the story three years later: former-skinhead and gang leader Woody (Joe Gilgun) is getting married to his fiancé Lol (Vicky McClure); while ...

Brief: Grade and online for a 4 x 60-minute drama series that follows a skin-head gang in the mid 1980’s. Directed by Shane Meadows, it is a follow-up to the movie This is England. How it was ...

Here’s how it works. This Is England ’86 , the TV series sequel to Shane Meadows' runaway movie hit, is rolling out on Channel 4 this September. If you just can’t stand to wait that long ...

But, while it’s tempting to get wrapped up speaking in dualities, if ‘86 is to be labelled a success, it has to be on its own merits rather than through any comparison. Now that three years ...

Shown on Channel 4 in September, the four-part This Is England ’86 reconstitutes the cast of Shane Meadows’ 2006 film (see Freedom, 30th June/14th July 2007), depicting its characters’ continuing ...

Shane Meadows’s Bafta-winning This Is England was a compassionate portrait of British youth culture in the shadow of the Falklands. The coming-of-age story of schoolboy Shaun, who was taken ...

Shane Meadows’s audacious sequel to This is England comes as a four part TV-series set three years after the film. The central character (schoolboy Shaun) and his skinhead friends are older ...

Shane Meadows's This is England '86, the TV follow-up to his acclaimed film, is funny, moving and astonishingly good, says Ceri Radford. Shaun, played by Thomas Turgoose, in Shane Meadows's This ...

And so it goes with the excellent This Is England 86, now into the second of its four parts, and developing into a compelling drama series with the usual touch of Meadows humour mixed in with the ...

Somehow, by transporting what is ostensibly the cast of Skins to live in their parent’s decade and handing them a few issues to deal with that don’t involve iPhones, This Is England ’86 ...