SOMEWHERE BOY
Running Time: 8 x 30 minutes
Somewhere Boy is a drama by Pete Jackson (One Normal Night, Love In Recovery). Hailed as ‘a beautiful piece of television’ and ‘the best British drama of the autumn, if not the year’ by The Guardian, Somewhere Boy came out on Channel 4 and All4 in October 2022.
When Danny (Lewis Gribben) was a baby, his mum was killed in a car crash. Overwhelmed with grief, his dad Steve (Rory Keenan) bought a house in the middle of nowhere and locked Danny in, telling him the world outside was full of monsters waiting to take him away. Just like they took his mum.
For eighteen years they just stayed in, listening to Benny Goodman records and watching old movies with no sad endings. But when Danny turns eighteen his whole world explodes in an instant and he has to come to terms with a new world he never knew existed. Danny is taken to live with his well-meaning but stressed-out aunt Sue (Lisa McGrillis) and cousin Aaron (Samuel Bottomley) and sets out to find the real monster - the one that killed his mum.
CREDITS
Starring - Lewis Gribben, Samuel Bottomley, Rory Keenan, Lisa McGrillis, Johann Myers, Jamie Michie
Written by - Pete Jackson
Directed by - Alex Winckler, Alexandra Brodski
Produced by - Gavin O’Grady
Executive Producers - Murray Ferguson, Petra Fried, Emily Harrison, Pete Jackson
BAFTA TV Awards
Best Drama TV Series 2023 - Nominated
Best Supporting Actor 2023 (Samuel Bottomley) - Nominated
BAFTA TV Craft Awards
Emerging Talent: Fiction 2023 (Pete Jackson) - Winner
Best Drama Writer 2023 (Pete Jackson) - Nominated
BAFTA Scotland Awards
Best Actor - Television 2023 (Lewis Gribben) - Winner
Edinburgh TV Awards
Breakthrough Actor 2023 (Lewis Gribben) - Winner
RTS Craft & Design Awards
Casting Award 2023 (Catherine Willis) - Winner
Director - Scripted 2023 (Alex Winckler) - Nomindated
Picture Enhancement 2023 (Thomas Urbye & Grace Weston) - Nominated
Series Mania Awards
Audience Award 2022 - Winner
Screen Daily Awards
Rising Star Scotland 2022 (Lewis Gribben) - Winner
awards
Press
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Times
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The Telegraph
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Guardian
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The i
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Independent
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Evening Standard
The best British drama of the autumn, if not the year...What a beautiful piece of television this is.
The Guardian
An unforgettable piece of television.
The Telegraph
Brace yourself for what might be the hardest-hitting, most extraordinary and heartbreaking drama of the year,
Sunday Mail
Beautifully pitched…tender, funny and oddly life-affirming.
The Times
A beautiful, rare find that is in a world of its own…This is a good time for stories about male friendships, from Ladhood to Big Boys, and Aaron and Danny’s tentative partnership can comfortably be added to that list.
The Guardian
It will knock your socks clean off.
Evening Standard
A dark and moving exploration of mental health, bereavement and the point at which smothering parental love edges into abuse.
Daily Telegraph
Writer Pete Jackson weaves a kind of magic from the very first episode, and it’s hard to take your eyes off Lewis Gribben as Danny.
Daily Mail
A charming paean to the indomitable human spirit, anchored by a star-making performance from Lewis Gribben.
The Independent
Soulful and sensitive: Somewhere Boy is homegrown British drama at its best.
Grazia
There are few truly original ideas left in TV drama, but this is one of them. Funny, surprising and hugely affecting.
Heat
Beautifully conjuring complicated and unnervingly dark subject matter, this is a special and shuddering drama that gently – and then forcefully – nudges its way around the grey areas of why people do the things they do, aching with empathy at every turn. It might be one of the best of the year.
The i
A programme so original that it [makes] you realise afresh just how formulaic so much TV drama is.
The Spectator
A rich and strange fairy tale for our times.
The New Statesman