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Top Boy - Season 1

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A powerful and thrilling new primetime drama, where young lives will risk everything to be Top Boy

Life as lived on London’s Summerhouse estate, a mix of visceral thriller and intimate, heartfelt drama. Top Boy is about young lives lived on the edge and, for the most part, lived out of sight in east London today. A beautiful, honest and gripping rendition of inner-city drug and gang culture. Set on a London housing estate, lives are lived along lines where challenges come in all forms, even – especially – for kids. Thirteen-year-old Ra’Nell (Malcolm Kamulete) finds he has to grow-up fast when his mentally ill mother Lisa (Sharon Duncan Brewster) is suddenly hospitalized. At the same time his mum’s friend Heather (Kierston Wareing), pregnant and penniless, enlists his help in a dangerous plan she has concocted to give her baby the chances she never had – “even if it means doing one wrong thing to get to the right place”. Meanwhile, in the courtyards of Summerhouse Estate a thriving but invisible business is being run by Dushane (Ashley Walters) and his friend Sully (Kane Robinson). Charming, sexy and clever, the 26-year-old Dushane has “already run out of things to be – except this”. When he attracts the attention of ex-convict and drug dealer Bobby Raikes (Geoff Bell) he seizes an opportunity to be more, to have more, to be Top Boy. But others will pay a heavy price for Dushane’s ambitions. STARRING: ASHLEY WALTERS (INSIDE MEN,OUTCASTS, SINBAD) KIERSTON WAREING (THE SHADOW LINE, LUTHER) KANE ROBINSON (R&B ARTIST / RAPPER - KANO, TOWER BLOCK)

Ep1. Fabric of Life

Ep2. This Has Got Political

Ep3. Dreams are made of this

Ep4. Respect

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