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Ronan Bennett (born 14 January 1956) is a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his work as showrunner, writer and executive producer of the drug and gang-related crime drama television series Top Boy.
Apr 15, 2024 · Half a year on from the spectacular conclusion to the fifth and (maybe, maybe not) final season of his acclaimed TV drama, series creator Ronan Bennett reflects on the show’s sometimes tortured...
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Aug 31, 2019 · The screenwriter finished series two of his east London drama as his wife, Georgina, was dying. Then Channel 4 cancelled it. Now, thanks to Drake and Netflix, it’s back. Read an interview with Top...
Ronan Bennett was born in 1956 in Northern Ireland, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Top Boy (2011), Public Enemies (2009) and Gunpowder (2017).
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Jan 20, 2024 · The novelist’s new book, based on his Netflix hit Top Boy, draws on his experience of being Irish in London – and of being wrongly convicted of murder. But his status as a former convict cuts ...
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Top Boy is a British crime drama television series created and written by Ronan Bennett. The series is set on the fictional Summerhouse estate in the London Borough of Hackney. It focuses on two drug dealers, Dushane ( Ashley Walters) and Sully ( Kane Robinson ), along with others involved with drug dealing and gang violence in London.
Sep 7, 2023 · Screenwriter Ronan Bennett, who conceived of the show’s premise after seeing a 12-year-old boy dealing drugs in 2009 in Hackney, East London — where he lives, and the show is set — has written of how the struggles in his own life – such as raising two children after losing his wife to cancer – bled into the tone of the scripts as he ...
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