This Is England '86 revisits the characters of Shane Meadows' multi award-winning hit film, This Is England, three years on.

The brand new drama, coming later this year to Channel 4, will be acclaimed filmmaker Shane Meadows' first ever television project.

1986, the Mexico World Cup, Top Gun at the cinemas, The Final Countdown at number one and over 3.4 million Brits unemployed. A memorable year in the national psyche - and the year that Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) is leaving school. Suddenly being young isn't that easy and he's got to find his own way in the world. The gang; Woody, Lol, Smell, Milky and the rest are back. Loud and proud, they're looking for love, a laugh, a job and something that resembles a future.

Shane Meadows said: "When I finished This Is England I had a wealth of material and unused ideas that I felt very keen to take further – audiences seemed to really respond to the characters we created and out of my long standing relationship with Film4 and Channel 4 the idea for a television serial developed."