Brand new drama comes to 4 this week, with two very different takes on inner city lawlessness. First suspect in our police line-up is Top Boy, a raw four-part drama about inner-city drug and gang culture set in the East End of London.
Visit the site for video profiles of the cast and a filmed interview with writer Ronan Bennet. You can also download a mixtape of music from the show right here, right now.
In a scheduling move that reflects the drama’s gripping potency, Top Boy is being shown across four nights on Channel 4 this week, starting on Monday at 10pm.
Also this week there’s a less grim but no less brilliant take on ill-behaviour as the magnificent Misfits returns to your screens. Series 3 of the ‘superheroes with asbos’ drama kicks off on E4 – Channel 4′s juvenile deliquent sibling – at 10pm on Sunday.
Fans of the show will already know that main man Nathan has finally, and literally, gone West. If you haven’t already, you can see how Nathan, armed with a new superpower but the same old motormouth, checks out in style… Watch our exclusive online film Misfists: Vegas Baby on 4oD.
So how on earth to replace Nathan? Well, this clip might give you a clue.
You might recognise Misfits new arrival Rudy as actor Joe Gilgun who played skinhead Woody in the multi award-winning film This Is England. Acclaimed director Shane Meadows revisits his characters from this film in the Channel 4 drama This Is England ’86, which you can still catch on 4oD. And look out for Woody and the gang this Christmas in a one-off special, This Is England ’88.
Back to the welcome return of Misfits. To mark the occasion, we’ve released a new Misfits game for mobile from custody. Read all about it – or just download it and get on with playing it – here. It’s free, you don’t even have to nick it…
Finally, something else that’s free and well worth a gander.
Cracking (crackling?) new comedy drama Fresh Meat takes a wary step off the pavement to make room for Top Boy this week, but if you’re one of a growing number of lovestruck carnivores, despair ye not. You can watch brand new Episode 7 of Fresh Meat right here on 4oD even before it airs on telly. Now THAT’S fresh.
Here’s a sneak preview of Vod (what is her name short for? Video on demand, I imagine, but is that just me?) pulling Salman Rushdie’s literary pants down and giving him a spanking. Not literally, of course…
