{"id":7991,"date":"2017-07-12T09:40:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T13:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/shane-meadows-pens-new-channel-4-drama-the-virtues\/"},"modified":"2017-07-12T12:15:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T16:15:51","slug":"shane-meadows-pens-new-channel-4-drama-the-virtues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/shane-meadows-pens-new-channel-4-drama-the-virtues\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Meadows Pens New Channel 4 Drama The Virtues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Channel 4 has ordered a new four-part drama, <em>The Virtues<\/em> (working title), written by Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne (<em>This is England<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Graham (<em>This is England<\/em>, <em>\u201986<\/em>, <em>\u201988<\/em>, <em>\u201990<\/em>; <em>Boardwalk Empire<\/em>) stars as Joseph, a moral yet troubled man who\u2019s lost everything he ever held dear and travels to Ireland to confront the demons from a childhood spent in the care system. His path soon crosses that of Dinah, played by newcomer Niamh Algar (<em>Without Name<\/em>). Helen Behan (<em>This is England<\/em>, <em>\u201988<\/em>, <em>\u201990<\/em>) joins the cast as Anna, the sister Joseph hasn\u2019t seen since they were separated as children.<\/p>\n<p>The 4&#215;1-hour drama reunites many members of the <em>This is England<\/em> team. In addition to Meadows, Thorne, Graham and Behan, Mark Herbert (<em>This is England<\/em>, <em>\u201986<\/em>, <em>\u201988<\/em>, <em>\u201990<\/em>) and Nickie Sault (<em>This is England<\/em>, <em>\u201986<\/em>, <em>\u201988<\/em>, <em>\u201990<\/em>) are attached to the project as producers. Meadows will also serve as director.<\/p>\n<p>The Warp Films production will shoot primarily on location in Sheffield, as well as in Liverpool and Belfast. <em>The Virtues<\/em> is filming now and will air on Channel 4 in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Meadows commented: \u201c<em>The Virtues<\/em> reunites me with the peerless Stephen Graham, whilst also allowing me the chance to work with a host of supremely gifted actors and some incredible new talent. It takes the biblical, almost apocalyptic levels of revenge witnessed in <em>Dead Man\u2019s Shoes<\/em>, along with the bittersweet humor from <em>This is England<\/em>, and creates a landscape like nothing else I&#8217;ve ever worked on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beth Willis, the head of drama at Channel 4, said: \u201cWe are so thrilled that the giant of a genius that is Shane Meadows has, with Mark Herbert, chosen Channel 4 to be the home of his next extraordinary story, world and unforgettable characters. This tender love story is complex and at times dark, but always shot through with heart and a large dose of humor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Channel 4 has ordered a new four-part drama, The Virtues (working title), written by Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne (This is England).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":7992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[233,736,1983],"class_list":["post-7991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-channel-4","tag-jack-thorne","tag-shane-meadows","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shane Meadows Pens New Channel 4 Drama The Virtues - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/shane-meadows-pens-new-channel-4-drama-the-virtues\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shane Meadows Pens New Channel 4 Drama The Virtues - 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