A powerful and thrilling primetime drama where youngsters will risk everything to be top boy.
Thrilling, raw, frightening, sad, hopeful and surprisingly funny by turn. Top Boy is an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city urban drug and gang culture.
Set on a housing estate, lives are lived along the lines where challenges come in all forms - especially for kids.Thirteen-year-old Ra'Nell finds he has to grow up fast when his mentally ill mother Lisa is suddenly hospitalised. At the same time, his mum's friend Heather, pregnant and penniless, enlists his help in a dangerous plan she has concocted to give her baby the chances she never head - '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 and his friend Sully. 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 he seizes an opportunity to be more, to have more, to be Top Boy.
The second season of Top Boy begins a year after the end of the first and returns to follow Dushane and Sully, once partners and now rivals they are both looking to expand their territories but with this comes another breed of rival criminals. Ra'Nell on the other hand has found solace away form the gang life but his best friend Gem hasn't been quite so lucky.
With this new breed of criminal threatening the Summerhouse estate and with the options to go legit who will come out on top?
STARRING: ASHLEY WALTERS (FAMILY TREE, DOCTOR WHO, INSIDE MEN, OUTCASTS, SINBAD), KANE ROBINSON (R&B ARTIST/RAPPER – KANO, TOWER BLOCK)
DIRECTORS: S1 – YANN DEMANGE (CRIMINAL JUSTICE, DEAD SET), S2 – JONATHAN VAN TULLEKEN (MISFITS)
WRITER: RONAN BENNETT (MICHAEL MANN’S PUBLIC ENEMIES, THE HAMBURG CELL)
PRODUCERS: CHARLES STEEL, ALASDAIR FLIND, RONAN BENNETT
