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‘The despair is the same’: Alan Bleasdale and James Graham on bringing back Boys from the Blackstuff

It’s a dream team: the creator of the 1982 BBC series and the writer of Sherwood. The pair meet in Liverpool to discuss putting Yosser and the lads on stage in a new era of economic desperation

The Guardian - UK

Jean Boht obituary

Actor who played Nellie Boswell in the popular BBC television sitcom Bread

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Succession; The Gallows Pole; Changing Ends; University Challenge – review

Succession bows out in Shakespearean style; Shane Meadows changes tack with a gobby, grubby period drama; Alan Carr meets his sitcom younger self; and a TV beast exits with a smile…

The Guardian - UK

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Liverpool's lost TV shows from Corrie spin-off to 'disgusting' show pulled by ITV bosses

Some of these haven't been aired in decades

Liverpool Echo

Lost Liverpool pub made famous in iconic 1980s television show

The pub featured in a classic episode of a BAFTA-winning series

Liverpool Echo

The Blackley-born actor with a famous catchphrase who made Hollywood history

Bernard Hill has starred in some of the biggest films ever

Manchester Evening News

Boys From the Blackstuff to be retold 40 years on at Liverpool's Royal Court

"Sadly the struggles of the 1980s don't feel like history, we are all feeling the pain and the rage, the absurd cruelty and confusion of those times in the here and now"

Liverpool Echo

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Go on, gizza play: Boys from the Blackstuff lives again – on stage

Alan Bleasdale works with Sherwood creator James Graham to revisit TV masterpiece

The Guardian - UK

Coronation Street, Emmerdale, EastEnders and Hollyoaks stars who started out as child stars

Their careers started elsewhere and at a very young age

Manchester Evening News

‘I was in front of an audience but all I could think was, I could be dying’: Robert Lindsay on acting, ageing – and surviving cancer

The actor, who has starred in everything from sitcoms to Shakespeare, talks about his family rows over Brexit, having his phone hacked – and why he did not want to be like Laurence Olivier

The Guardian - UK

Long forgotten Liverpool TV show that was 'ahead of its time'

Written by Alan Bleasdale, the surreal escapades of Huyton schoolboy Francis Scully featured the acting debuts of Kenny Dalglish and Elvis Costello

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