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Top Boy is a British television drama series that was first broadcast on Channel 4. Season 1 was broadcast over consecutive nights, from 31 October to 3 November 2011. Set on the fictional Summerhouse housing estate in Hackney, the series follows the lives of a group of people involved in drug dealing and street gangs. A second series began airing on 20 August 2013 on Channel 4. The series is to show an insight to life in east London estates and how drugs affect everyone living there.
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Top Boy is a British television drama series that was first broadcast on Channel 4. Season 1 was broadcast over consecutive nights, from 31 October to 3 November 2011. Set on the fictional Summerhouse housing estate in Hackney, the series follows the lives of a group of people involved in drug dealing and street gangs. A second series began airing on 20 August 2013 on Channel 4. The series is to show an insight to life in east London estates and how drugs affect everyone living there.
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Rotten TomatoesBest Original Television Music | 2012 | Brian Eno
Scripted Casting | 2020 | Des Hamilton
Best Performance In a TV ShowFilm | 2022 | Kano
Best Actor in a TV Series | 2020 | Ashley Walters
Best MiniSeries | 2012 | Alasdair Flind
Best Director Fiction | 2012 | Yann Demange
Best Photography and Lighting Fiction | 2012 | Tat Radcliffe
Leading Actor | 2024 | Kano
Best Drama Series | 2012 | Alasdair Flind
Best Script Drama | 2020 | Ronan Bennett
Best Cinematography in a Television Drama | 2013 | Christopher Ross
Best Cinematography in a Television Drama | 2013 | Christopher Ross
Breakthrough Talent | 2020 | Aneil Karia
Breakthrough Talent For | 2020 | Aneil Karia
Photography Lighting Fiction | 2020 | Joe Anderson
When the third season of Top Boy was released on Netflix in 2019, it was released as "Season 1" to attract viewers, and the first two seasons from 2011 and 2013 were retroactively retitled "Top Boy: Summerhouse" to differentiate between the two.
Netflix has announced they will be reviving Top Boy and making seasons 4 and 5 (October 2017)
Rapper/singer Drake offered to pay for the production of season 3 as the show was cut in 2012.
The show features many musicians from the UK in the main cast. For example Ashley Walters (Asher D), Kano (Kano), Little Simz (Little Simz) and David Omoregie (Dave).
The original 2 series aired in 2.35 aspect ratio and features music from Channel 4's broad music license. The version Netflix provides, is cropped to 16x9 and uses generic music.