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The Latest Breaking News from Shane Meadows

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

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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

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 Guardian - 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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

Louder

‘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 Guardian - UK

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 Week

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…

The Guardian - UK

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

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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

Daily Mirror

True story of The Gallows Pole and real life Robin Hood who robbed rich to save town

A new Shane Meadows drama called The Gallows Pole showcases the lives of David Hartley and the Yorkshire Coiners, a brutal but cunning gang who made and shared forged currency in the 1700s

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“The biggest fraud in British history” the shocking real story behind historical drama The Gallows Pole

The Gallows Pole true story: There's a shocking truth behind the BBC historical drama, described as “The biggest fraud in British history.”

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The Independent UK

Thomas Turgoose: ‘He’s one of the biggest stars in the world – but he wanted to go to Wagamama every night’

The ‘This Is England’ star talks to Jacob Stolworthy about Shane Meadows’s new drama, appearing with Ed Sheeran in ‘Game of Thrones’, and his newfound friendship with Mark Ruffalo

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Shane Meadows’s first period drama is about the Cragg Vale Coiners

Micheal Socha stars in the gritty retelling of a true story. Plus: the Rookie Nurses give it their all. Here’s what to watch this evening

WhatToWatch

TV tonight: Our highlights for Wednesday, May 31

The Gallows Pole is just one of the gems on TV tonight.

The Guardian - UK

Shane Meadows: ‘This is as scary a time as I can remember’

The film director tells Michael Hogan about hating hitting 50, love’s golden ticket, deep-fried jam sandwiches and people struggling on the breadline

The Guardian - UK

Shane Meadows on his newfound love of period drama: ‘It’ll resonate with people in a way we didn’t even intend’

He made his name with violence-peppered working-class realism, but now the This is England creator is doing historical drama. We step inside his take on a brutal 18th-century gang

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #88: Can the Succession and Barry finales possibly meet fans’ high expectations?

In this week’s newsletter: While the Roy family are set for one more boardroom battle and Barry bows out, the stakes are higher than ever for TV’s big finales

Evening Standard

Pagans, folk rock and no script: the making of The Gallows Pole, the BBC’s wacky new historical drama

Cult director Shane Meadows takes the helm to tell a uniquely Yorkshire story

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