9 h. ago ‘I’ve seen a lot of great pissheads’: Stephen Graham on booze, Baftas and the return of his bone

Stephen Graham and Steven Knight had an astonishing 2025. As A Thousand Blows explodes back, they talk about taking decades to become overnight sensations, the Peaky Blinders movie – and why it could be time for a scouse Bond villainStephen Graham had a stellar 2025. He didn’t just play Bruce Springsteen’s father in biopic Deliver Me from Nowhere but, of course, co-created and starred in Netflix mega-hit Adolescence – the game-changing drama that sparked global debate about online misogyny, incel culture and the “manosphere”.His friend and regular collaborator Steven Knight watched admiringly from afar as the devastating four-parter became event TV. “My God, it was a cultural phenomenon,” he says, puffing out his cheeks with pride. “Adolescence got people talking who don’t normally talk, about things they don’t normally talk about. Is there any finer achievement than having a direct, immediate and positive effect worldwide on human relationships? It’s like putting something on scree...

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6 d. ago From celebrity betrayals to national conversations, here’s 2025’s biggest TV

From the chaos of The White Lotus to a summer at Cousins beach to the Upside Down, here is a roundup of some of the biggest shows of the year.

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9 d. ago ‘That’s a rare find!’ The casting genius who plucked this year’s biggest TV star out of 600 auditions

From Peaky Blinders to Sherwood, Shaheen Baig has cast some of the best shows on screen. But she struck gold with Owen Cooper for Adolescence – and won an Emmy. How does she spot such game-changing talent?At the Emmys in September, Adolescence all but swept the board. It won best limited series. It won awards for writing, for directing, for cinematography. Three of its actors – Stephen Graham, Erin Doherty and Owen Cooper – all took home awards. But Adolescence also earned another Emmy for a craft that often goes overlooked: best casting.Shaheen Baig was the woman responsible for casting Adolescence, and her Emmy is tucked away in the top right corner of the screen as we chat about her year over Zoom. She is mortified as soon as she realises this, immediately re-angling her webcam to keep it out of sight, lest anyone mistakes it for a boast. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘I wouldn’t answer Stephen Graham’s calls’: Erin Doherty on dreams, danger and ghosting Adolescence’s creator

She won an Emmy for her electric performance in the Netflix smash hit, but the casting process wasn’t exactly hiccup-free. The actor opens up about a year of success, struggle – and how she nearly became a footballerFor a while, Erin Doherty ignored Stephen Graham’s calls. Not deliberately, she stresses with a laugh. “I’m just really bad at my phone. I’m such a technophobe, and he knew that,” she says. They had made the Disney+ show A Thousand Blows together, in which Doherty plays an East End crime boss in Victorian London, and Graham had talked about an idea he wanted to dramatise, about a teenage boy who is catastrophically radicalised by online misogyny. A couple of months after they’d wrapped A Thousand Blows, Graham and his wife and producing partner, Hannah Walters, kept trying to get in touch. “I was getting voice notes from him and Hannah being like, ‘Erin, pick up your phone!’” Doherty’s girlfriend told her to ring him back and Graham offered her the role in Adolescence. S...

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1 week ago Owen Cooper says Adolescence Emmy win was ‘best day’ of his life

The 16-year old became the youngest male actor to win an Emmy after his breakout role in the acclaimed Netflix series.

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2 w. ago Adolescence’s Hannah Walters had to buy new suitcase to hold show’s awards

The actress told the Christmas edition of the Big Issue magazine the past three years had been ‘chaotic and exciting’.

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4 w. ago 'One of the greatest British films of 21st century' on Film 4 tonight

This iconic coming of age drama and award winning film stars Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jack O'Connell and Vicky McClure, and later inspired several hit TV mini series

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last month Inside what Adolescence star Stephen Graham is 'really like' behind the scenes

Stephen Graham will be returning for the second season of A Thousand Blows after his award-winning success with Netflix's Adolescence.

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