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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Michael Hogan

‘A modern masterpiece’: writer Jack Thorne’s best TV shows – from This Is England to Adolescence

A boy stands on a beach holding a sharpened stick, while other boys, shirtless with painted faces, jab spears at him
Winston Sawyers as Ralph in Jack Thorne’s new adaptation of Lord of the Flies. Photograph: Lisa Tomasetti/BBC/Eleven

He has been hailed as the hardest-working writer in Britain. Looking at Jack Thorne’s astonishing list of credits, it’s hard to argue. The prolific playwright and screenwriter’s output includes many of the best homegrown TV dramas of the past two decades.

That’s without the many hit plays and films he has also written. There’s more to come, too. Next out of the Thorne pipeline is Channel 4’s forbidden romance Falling, with Keeley Hawes and Paapa Essiedu, and the film Enola Holmes 3, which will be followed by the small matter of Sam Mendes’ four Beatles biopics.

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