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By next year, it’ll be four years since Shane Meadows’ This is England](This Is England (2007) - Movie | Moviefone) came out and stood out as a well-observed portrait of growing up of '80s-era England, so it seems fitting that any follow-up would also take place four years after the fact. According to Screen Daily, that’s just the idea, as Meadows prepares to do a four-part series called “We Were Faces” for the UK’s Channel Four which will chronicle the characters as their lives have progressed by 1986.
I haven’t had the chance yet to see this summer’s Somers Town](http://www.moviefone.com/movie/somers-town/36828/main), the latest from Meadows and young star Thomas Turgoose, but the latter has certainly made an impression for himself between England and Eden Lake](Eden Lake (2008) - Movie | Moviefone). Between that one and Somers Town, he took home the London Film Critics’ Young British Performer of the Year award, so he must be doing something right, and there’s a unique pleasure in seeing a young talent grow up and grow out in their work.
No offense, Freddie Highmore, but it’s just not the same. Maybe you should ring up Mr. Meadows for a part…
(Thanks to IFC’s Alison Willmore for the heads-up.)