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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Hollie Richardson, Ellen E Jones, Graeme Virtue and Alexi Duggins

TV tonight: Champion is a juicy south London drama about sibling rivalry

Champion on BBC One.
Champion on BBC One. Photograph: Ben Gregory-Ring/BBC/New Pictures Ltd

Champion, 9.15pm,
BBC One

Acclaimed novelist Candice Carty-Williams’s first TV project is at once an ode to south London’s Black music scene and a juicy tale of sibling rivalry. Bosco Champion (Malcolm Kamulete) and his younger sister Vita (an exciting screen debut by Déja J Bowens) always dreamed of making music – but it is Bosco who becomes a rap star at 25 years old, while Vita is the assistant he gives coffee orders to (and takes lyrics from). Fed up Vita decides to make her own leap of faith into the limelight when Bosco’s rival notices her talent. The unfolding eight episodes are highly charged drama with sharp social observations, major relationship breakdowns and an impressive soundtrack. Hollie Richardson

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