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Top Boy will return for a fourth season in March, Netflix has confirmed. The hit drama, which is produced by Drake, was last on screens in 2019.

Top Boy season four’s release date has finally been confirmed, alongside a host of new names joining the cast.The Netflix series – which is itself a revival of the Channel 4 show – last streamed nearly three years ago in 2019, and its follow up has been announced for March 18, launching with eight episodes.The news was revealed by stars including Ashley Walters and Kano, who shared a video clip of the poster with a date being put up on the ODEON BFI IMAX in central London.Walters had teased an announcement yesterday (January 30) with an image of part of the poster being put up, accompanied by the word “tomorrow”.A post shared by Ashley Walters /// Asher D (@ashleywalters)Alongside that, Netflix has confirmed that Josephine De La Baume (A Very Secret Service), Howard Charles (Shadow and Bone), Erin Kellyman (The Green Knight) and rap and grime artist NoLay (Natalie Athanasiou) will be joining the cast, while fashion model Adwoa Aboah will make her acting debut on the show.The new season was expected to arrive in 2020, though was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Walters and Kano are set to return, as are regulars Micheal Ward, Little Simz, Jasmine Jobson, Lisa Dwan, Kadeem Ramsay, Saffron Hocking, Jolade Obasola, Hope Ikpoku and Araloylin Oshunremi.The new season will see Dushane (Walters) on top of the world after winning against Jamie (Ward), while his Summerhouse crew is unrivalled. Things are also going well with Shelley (Ajikawo) as he dreams of a future away from the road – though a new problem threatens everything.Sully (Robinson) is trying to find peace after killing friend Dris, and is forced back into the only world he knows when family comes calling.

Top Boy on Twitter.The hit series first aired in 2011 until 2013 on Channel 4, before being resurrected by Netflix for a third series in 2019.Walters, who has played Dushane Hill in the show since its inception, shared a photo on Twitter earlier today (January 30) of what looks to be a new poster for the series being put up in London. The actor’s headshot takes up most of the advert, while the word “before” seems to be written over his face.Beneath him, the word “TOP” is visible, with the rest of the poster not plastered up when the photo was taken. “Tomorrow,” Walters captioned the tweet.

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Firth (Operation Mincemeat, Mothering Sunday), Toby Jones (The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, First Cow) Crystal Clarke (Sanditon, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain) and Tanya Moodie (Motherland, A Discovery of Witches) have signed on to star alongside Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward in Empire of Light, the drama from Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes, which marks his follow-up to 2020 Best Picture nominee 1917.

EXCLUSIVE: Small Axe and Top Boy star Michael Ward and Emma actor Bill Nighy have been set to lead The Beautiful Game, a Netflix film about a group of English homeless footballers who compete in the Homeless World Cup.

Top Boy and Steve McQueen‘s Small Axe, has joined the cast of Sam Mendes’ new film, Empire Of Light.Plot details for the upcoming movie – which co-stars Oscar winner Olivia Colman – have been kept under wraps, but according to Deadline, the film is a love story that will take place in a scenic old cinema on the South Coast of England in the 1980s.The film will also see 1917 cinematographer Roger Deakins reunite with Mendes for the film.Deadline reports that Ward, who scooped the EE BAFTA Rising

EXCLUSIVE: After meeting and auditioning with a number actors, Top Boy breakout Micheal Ward has been set to join Olivia Colman in the Searchlight drama Empire of Light with Sam Mendes directing. The film will mark Mendes first film since his Oscar-winning World War I drama 1917 and he also penned the script and marks his first solo script. The film will be produced by Mendes and Pippa Harris’ Neal Street Productions. Production is expected to star in fall of 2022.

Top Boy will “expand the world” of the show “in a really interesting way” when its fourth season airs on Netflix, filmmaker Aneil Karia, who directed three episodes of the most recent season, has told NME.Top Boy, which follows the dealings of a group of gang members on a housing estate in the East End, includes Ashley Walters and Micheal Ward in its mostly British cast. Its first two series were broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK before it was abruptly cancelled.

“Small Axe,” a series of dramas exploring the experiences of London’s West Indian community from the 1960s to the 1980s, received 15 nominations on Wednesday for the British Academy Television Awards.

Psychological horror Saint Maudis a nose ahead of a tight-knit pack of lead nominees for the 2020 British Independent Film Awards, unveiled Wednesday morning by Holliday Grainger and Micheal Ward. The Film4-backed debut feature from Rose Glass, which released earlier this year in the U.K.

Small Axe, which depicts the lives of Black British people between 1969 and 1982, and is dedicated to the Black Lives Matter movement. He played Franklyn in the Lovers Rock instalment.Speaking to the Times, Ward was asked if he thought the film and TV industry was doing enough to push for diversity.

Lovers Rock, one of the five films in Steve McQueen's Small Axe anthology drama series for the BBC/Amazon about London's West Indian Community, has been added to this year's BFI London Film Festival. The film —starring newcomer Amarah-Jae St Aubyn and BAFTA Rising Star winner Micheal Ward (Blue Story) —will be one of the few films given a physical-only screening at the BFI Southbank, which much of the festival moved online due to the ongoing pandemic.

Top Boy have shared a reunion photo ahead of season four.Jasmine Jobson, Micheal Ward, Araloyin Oshunremi, Hope Ikpoku Jnr, Kadeem Ramsay and Alexander Blake were featured in a photo together on Jobson’s Instagram account.“Who Said You Can’t Choose You’re [sic] Family?” Jobson captioned the photo, which you can see here: Who Said You Can’t Choose You’re Family

Top Boy will return to Netflix for a second series.

"I want to get better roles and tell some more important stories"

"It was a serious pinch myself moment"

The star was speaking at last night's NME Awards 2020

The winning movie was directed and written by Rapman

While Joaquin Phoenix’s BAFTA acceptance speech about diversity may have generated the headlines, and Brad Pitt’s (read out by Margot Robbie) about wanting to call his award Harry because he was “excited about taking it back to the U.S.” the laughs, for many in attendance at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday night, the most moving moment of the ceremony came via local boy Micheal Ward.The 22-year-old Jamaica-born, London-raised actor — whose biggest roles to date have been Netflix’s rebooted

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The director of Blue Story has labelled the lack of black Bafta nominees as “ridiculous” amid criticism of the diversity in this year’s film awards.

Awkwafina, Kaitlyn Dever, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Micheal Ward and Jack Lowden have been nominated for the 2020 BAFTA Rising Star award, the British Academy's honor for new talent.The nominations were announced Monday in London by Tom Hiddleston, a day before the full list of BAFTA nominees are revealed.Awkwafina, a Golden Globe winner Sunday night, was nominated for The Farewell, Dever for Booksmart (although she's also been hailed and Golden Globe nominated for the recent Netflix series

Blue Story star Micheal Ward has said that his nomination for a Bafta award is a vindication of the film following controversies surrounding screenings.