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Top Boy

May 2024

  • Myriam Raja giving evidence to the culture, media and sport Committee

    Film-making only for wealthiest as accessible routes disappear, MPs told

    Diverse and working-class talent unable to enter industry after cancellation of initiatives and development projects
  • The actor Sarah Lancashire as Catherine Cawood in Happy Valley.

    Finding TV that represents the true breadth of British society

    Letters: Caroline Spry calls for a comprehensive policy on digitised archiving of less mainstream film and television programmes. Plus letters from Linda Gresham, June Findlater and Desmond Hewitt
  • Franklyn Addo

    Why are some critics vexed by Top Boy’s Baftas? Because it’s the Britain they don’t want to talk about

    Franklyn Addo
    I live and work in communities at the heart of the series, and I value its art more than Happy Valley or The Crown, says youth worker, journalist and rapper Franklyn Addo

January 2024

  • Kane Robinson, left, and Daniel Kaluuya photographed in London by Phil Fisk for the Observer New Review, December 2023.

    ‘He’s the party starter!’ Daniel Kaluuya and Kano on friendship, football and their new film

    The Oscar winner – and now director – and the rapper and Top Boy star Kane Robinson are longtime friends. Their new movie, the dystopian thriller The Kitchen, draws on their city childhoods

December 2023

  • ‘Human powder keg’ … Kane Robinson as Sully in Top Boy

    2023 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2023: No 8 – Top Boy

  • Tilda Swinton photographed in London by Lillie Eiger for the Observer New Review.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography

November 2023

  • Jasmine Jobson

    Top Boy star Jasmine Jobson: ‘I’m lucky, people have had my back. Not everybody gets that’

    As she lines up roles to follow the hit drama’s much-loved Jaq, the actor talks about finding vulnerability, putting herself into care as a teen – and that cliffhanger ending

October 2023

  • Clive Nwonka

    Where are the works on British black urban films?

    UCL professor Clive Nwonka says genre should stand with traditions such as the French new wave and British social realism in terms of academic study

September 2023

  • There can only be one … Kane Robinson as Sully and Ashley Walters as Dushane in Top Boy.

    TV review
    Top Boy final season review – a potent ending that rivals the very best television

  • Johnny Flynn and Roisin Gallagher in The Lovers.

    From Boiling Point to Breathtaking – the 15 best TV dramas for autumn 2023

  • Kane Robinson and Ashley Walters in Top Boy

    From council estates to celebrity superfans: farewell Top Boy, the drama that changed TV for ever

  • Gripping to the last … Kane Robinson as Sully and Ashley Walters as Dushane in Top Boy.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    Top Boy to The Changeling: the seven best shows to stream this week

June 2022

  • Ashley Walters as Dushane and Kane Robinson as Sully in the second series of Top Boy, on Netflix this year.

    What did Blackout Tuesday change? Not much – TV boardrooms are still very white

    Michelle Kambasha
    Executive roles are still mostly out of reach for Black creatives, says music industry professional Michelle Kambasha

April 2022

  • Crease yourself … The English Game.

    Cultural prescription
    Something for the weekend: film, music and more for May Day bank holiday

  • Little Simz performing at the Brit awards, February 2022.

    Little Simz cancels US tour citing financial unviability as an indie artist

March 2022

  • ‘Note-perfect’: Kane Robinson as Sully in Top Boys Season 2

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Top Boy; Holding; WeCrashed; Ukraine: Should We Do More?

    Ronan Bennett’s concrete western returns in style; there’s humour and pathos in an adaptation of Graham Norton’s novel; and a corporate downfall saga upends the American dream
  • Adwoa Aboah sitting down wearing a full black dress and black boots, on a red backdrop

    Adwoa Aboah on acting, recovery and her racial awakening: ‘I am a Black woman. I have a lot to say’

    She is one of the world’s most in-demand models, but it wasn’t always this way. As she gets her big acting break in Top Boy, she explains how she got through a tumultuous decade

    • TV review
      Top Boy review – this brilliant crime drama always leaves you guessing

    • ‘My life is all boom and bust’: Ashley Walters on Top Boy, his lost father and sudden wealth

    • The seven best shows to stream this week
      Top Boy to WeCrashed: the seven best shows to stream this week

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