Shane Meadows: ‘When I worked at Alton Towers, I’d ride the Thunder Looper four times each lunch break’
The reader interview
Post your questions for Shane Meadows
July 2023
Edinburgh film festival announces lineup after seeing off closure threat
Having survived the collapse of its parent organisation, the festival returns with a slimmed-down event
June 2023
TV tonight
TV tonight: the devastating stories of pensioners living in poverty
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Succession; The Gallows Pole; Changing Ends; University Challenge – review
May 2023
TV review
The Gallows Pole review – Shane Meadows’s period drama is an absolute must-see
TV tonight
TV tonight: Shane Meadows’s first period drama is about the Cragg Vale Coiners
Halifax thrilled to be new mecca for movie makers after Happy Valley success
This much I know
Shane Meadows: ‘This is as scary a time as I can remember’
Shane Meadows on his newfound love of period drama: ‘It’ll resonate with people in a way we didn’t even intend’
Actor Michael Socha: ‘Did I fall in with the wrong people? No, I was the wrong people’
February 2023
Stop smearing anti-racist skinheads, please
Letter: Some of them are just as warm, kind, sympathetic and thoughtful as Shane Meadows’ Woody and co, writes Dr Sean Purchase
December 2022
2023 culture preview
The 35 must-see TV shows to look forward to in 2023
A hardy period drama from Shane Meadows, a Frasier reboot and the fourth series of Succession – here’s a rundown of all the new year’s unmissable telly
November 2022
‘Wow, Samuel L Jackson is here!’ – how Yorkshire became Marvel’s go-to location
Why did the superhero franchise descend on the moors? What made Tom Cruise film Mission: Impossible nearby, and Shane Meadows follow suit? We report from new screen star hotspot Halifax – now being renamed Haliwood
December 2019
2019 in TV
The 50 best TV shows of 2019: No 5 – The Virtues
Stephen Graham returns as Shane Meadows’ muse in a series that starts as a desperate trawl through abuse and survival and evolves into a devastating depiction of everyday heroism
July 2019
Vicky McClure: ‘I couldn't stay in London. I begrudge paying so much for a pint'
After Bodyguard, Inside No 9 and Killing Eve, why are our TV writers still underrated?
Melvyn Bragg
May 2019
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Years and Years; The Virtues; Mum and Game of Thrones
Russell T Davies’s dystopian drama traces the Lyons family fortunes with wit and thrills
TV review
The Virtues review – a harrowing triumph by Shane Meadows
Stephen Graham stars as a man who loses his son then unravels completely in Meadows’ bruising and brilliant new drama, his first since dealing with his own sexual abuse
Line of Duty's Stephen Graham: 'My throat-slitting was superb. I'm good at dying'
He’s pals with Scorsese and DiCaprio but drives a banger, lives in a sleepy English village and loves reiki. As his searing new show The Virtues arrives, we meet the ‘spiritual scally’
