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The Gallows Pole is a three-part television series made for the BBC by Element Pictures, Big Arty Productions, and A24. It is a Shane Meadows adaptation of the novel of the same name by Benjamin Myers. According to Meadows, the series is a prequel to Myers's novel. It premiered on 31 May 2023.
May 31, 2023 · The Gallows Pole review – Shane Meadows’s period drama is an absolute must-see. The director of This is England’s take on a novel about an 18th-century counterfeiting gang is funny, moving,...
Sep 8, 2021 · A stellar cast has been assembled, and production is now underway, on writer and director Shane Meadows’ first period television drama, The Gallows Pole. Published: 8 September 2021. Top...
May 31, 2023 · Shane Meadows’s latest TV venture could have been cracking – but it’s just plain bewildering. The Gallows Pole is, as the BBC publicity machine tells us, the “remarkable true story of the...
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Set against the backdrop of the coming industrial revolution in eighteenth century Yorkshire and based on the novel by Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole fictionalises the true story of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners, a gang of weavers and land-workers who embark upon a revolutionary criminal enterprise that became the biggest fraud in ...
Based on the book by Benjamin Myers, Shane Meadows fictionalises the remarkable true story of the rise of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners. Published: 0:01 am, 23 May 2023. Updated:...
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Shane Meadows brings us the tale of the Cragg Vale coiners in a strange tonal mash of modern improv and psychedelic folk horror. It's an intoxicating brew but the three-part first series is bizarrely paced and seems to shudder and stall like it thinks it has Vince Gilligan levels of set up time to waste.
