This Is England (franchise)
2006 British film
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This Is England is a British drama franchise consisting of a film and three subsequent television miniseries.
- Shane Meadows
- Tom Harper (series)
- Shane Meadows
- Jack Thorne (series)
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| Produced by | Mark Herbert |
| Starring | Thomas Turgoose Stephen Graham Jo Hartley Andrew Shim Vicky McClure Joseph Gilgun Rosamund Hanson Chanel Cresswell |
| Edited by | Chris Dickens (SOTD, HF) Paul Machliss (TWE) |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The four instalments in the franchise focus on the coming-of-age of a group of people and the evolution of different British youth subcultures, spanning the years between 1983 and 1990 in a town in the East Midlands of England.
The original film was written and directed by Shane Meadows.
The writer for the follow-up series This Is England '86, This Is England '88, and This Is England '90 was Jack Thorne, in collaboration with Meadows.[1][2][3] Tom Harper directed the first two episodes of This Is England '86, while Meadows directed the latter two episodes and every episode of the further two series.
Instalments
- This Is England – Feature film released on 12 September 2006
- This Is England '86 – Four episodes broadcast between 7 and 28 September 2010
- This Is England '88 – Three episodes broadcast between 13 and 15 December 2011
- This Is England '90 – Four episodes broadcast between 13 September and 4 October 2015
Recurring cast
| Actor | Character | Film | Television | ||
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| This Is England | This Is England '86 | This Is England '88 | This Is England '90 | ||
| Thomas Turgoose | Shaun Fields | Main | |||
| Joseph Gilgun | Woody | Main | |||
| Vicky McClure | Lol | Main | |||
| Andrew Shim | Milky | Main | |||
| Rosamund Hanson | Smell | Main | |||
| Andrew Ellis | Gadget | Main | |||
| Chanel Cresswell | Kelly | Also Starring | Main | ||
| Danielle Watson | Trev | Also Starring | Main | ||
| Stephen Graham | Combo | Main | Also Starring | ||
| Michael Socha | Harvey | Also Starring | Main | ||
| Perry Benson | Meggy | Main | Brief appearances | ||
| George Newton | Banjo | Main | Also Starring | Brief appearances | |
| Kriss Dosanjh | Mr Sandhu | Also Starring | |||
| Jo Hartley | Cynthia Fields | Also Starring | |||
| Jack O'Connell | Pukey | Main | |||
| Kieran Hardcastle | Kes | Also Starring | Brief appearances | ||
| Sophie Ellerby | Pob | Also Starring | Brief appearances | ||
| Katherine Dow Blyton | Chrissy | Also Starring | |||
| Johnny Harris | Mick | Also Starring | Brief appearances | ||
| Perry Fitzpatrick | Flip | Also Starring | Also Starring | ||
| Joseph Dempsie | Higgy | Also Starring | Also Starring | ||
