This Is England '86

[Cardboard Box City]

There's going to be a four part TV spin-off from the film with the original cast, set four years on.

It's 1986 - the year Chris de Burgh is at number one, Top Gun is filling the cinemas, VHS is trumping Betamax, the World Cup is raging in Mexico and over 3.4 million Brits are unemployed.

As Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) sits his last school exam, the realisation dawns that adulthood beckons and in mid-80s England he's going to have to find his own way in the world. Luckily life has dealt a surprise hand to his friends too and no one is quite where they thought they would be. Woody, Lol, Smell, Gadget, Milky - they are all looking for love, a laugh, a job and something that resembles a future.

This Is England '86 is a brand new drama coming to Channel 4 this September. It revisits the gang from the hit film This Is England three years on.

"When I finished This Is England I had a wealth of material and unused ideas that I felt very keen to take further audiences seemed to really respond to the characters we created and out of my long standing relationship with Film4 and Channel 4 the idea for a television serial developed. Not only did I want to take the story of the gang broader and deeper, I also saw in the experiences of the young in 1986 many resonances to now recession, lack of jobs, sense of the world at a turning point. Whereas the film told part of the story, the TV serial will tell the rest."

Shane Meadows, Director

[Steve P]

Brilliant news, can't wait

[greenfairy43]

I wonder if it will be as brutal as the film?

[Purple Monkey]

Brilliant! Love the film, and Shane Meadows.

Oh and looks like Milky survived I thought that psycho killed him in the film, that attack was f**king brutal.

Edited August 16, 2010 by Purple Monkey

[rexclark]

Brilliant! Love the film, and Shane Meadows.

Oh and looks like Milky survived I thought that psycho killed him in the film, that attack was f**king brutal.

[Cardboard Box City]

At the end of the film his mother says to him that Milky is going to ok doesn't she? Just before he throws the flag in the sea?

[Alcatraz]

At the end of the film his mother says to him that Milky is going to ok doesn't she? Just before he throws the flag in the sea?

Edited August 16, 2010 by Alcatraz

[Purple Monkey]

At the end of the film his mother says to him that Milky is going to ok doesn't she? Just before he throws the flag in the sea?

Edited August 16, 2010 by Purple Monkey

[Pogues Mcgogues]

I went to school with a guy called Milky.

[Alcatraz]

I went to school with a guy called Milky.

[Cardboard Box City]

Have any of you seen Dead Man's Shoes? That film was quality too.

[rexclark]

Ah righto.

Have any of you seen Dead Man's Shoes? That film was quality too.

[rachbon]

i can't wait to see this, i love this is england.

dead mans shoes and a room for romeo brass are really good aswell.

[Purple Monkey]

"Four times today I've been picked on because of my trousers!"

[jono_01]

I've got it on DVD somewhere, I went to watch it once and the disk wasn't in the box. Haven't seen it yet.

[Steve P]

Starts tonight, really looking forward to it.

[jono_01]

Starts tonight, really looking forward to it.

[rachbon]

i'm really looking forward to this.

[pezzypops]

Chances are, 4 or Film 4 will have a Shane Meadows season again and Dead Man's Shoes will be on

Edited September 7, 2010 by pezzypops

[rexclark]

i'm really looking forward to this.

[tolywoly]

I'm looking forward to this tonight, movie was great.

[Steve P]

Well I enjoyed it. Not quite as good as I was hoping for, but then as I love the film so much my expectations were foolishly high. I love Gadget, he's brilliant.

[rachbon]

i liked it. not much happening but i think it's just because it was the first episode, it kind of felt like an introduction to the characters and just giving you a rough idea of who everyone is. looking forward to the future episodes when they go into the story a lot more.

[Purple Monkey]

This is so good!

I wonder what's happened to me-ladio with the skinhead who joined Combo's gang but got thrown out of the car for asking whether Combo believed in all that BNP bollocks?

I also didn't realise that the guy who was with Gadget chasing the bus was the older kid at the start of the film who Shaun started a fight with for making jokes about his dead dad and for looking a bit like Keith Chegwin

Edited September 8, 2010 by Purple Monkey

[rexclark]

i liked it. not much happening but i think it's just because it was the first episode, it kind of felt like an introduction to the characters and just giving you a rough idea of who everyone is. looking forward to the future episodes when they go into the story a lot more.