I was happy to see Cooper open up and let Sammy help him when it was needed, and I really liked how these two came together as a couple and a team and worked together to give each other the exact support and care they each needed at the right times. The other main character, Cooper, grew up in the foster care system and knows what it’s like to not have a steady family or the support that one needs. Sammy is in college now, studying music and doing some nanny duties on the side, while still making sure his health issues don't get out of control. I do think you would have a better concept of this book if you read the others first, only because some of the side characters here are previous leads. International sales are handled by A24.Third book in the Mannies Series and we get to see Sammy grown up. Executive producers for Element Pictures are Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Rachel Dargavel, Emma Norton, with Jo McClellan for the BBC. Nickie Sault, a long-time collaborator of Shane Meadows is producer. The Gallows Pole is produced by Element Pictures, a Fremantle company, in association with Big Arty for the BBC in association with A24. The Gallows Pole also sees the screen debuts of an ensemble of first-time actors, including Stevie Binns as Mand, Jennifer Reid as Barb, Soraya Jane Nabipour as Darya Hartley, Olivia Pentelow as Hannah, Charlotte Ockelton as Gwen Hartley and Dave Perkins as Tom Hartley. Set in the moorland hills of 18th Century Yorkshire, the drama follows the enigmatic David Hartley played by Michael Socha as he assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a revolutionary criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history.Īlso starring in The Gallows Pole are Sophie McShera as Grace Hartley, Thomas Turgoose (This Is England, Looted) as William Hartley, Yusra Warsama (Castle Rock) as Bethsheba, Anthony Welsh (Master Of None, The Flatshare) as Abe Oldfield, Samuel Edward-Cook (Peaky Blinders, Better) as Isaac Hartley, Joe Sproulle (The A Word) as Joe, and Adam Fogerty (Legend, Snatch) as James Broadbent, Nicole Barber-Lane (Hollyoaks) as Susie, Fine Time Fontayne (Peterloo) as Joseph Broadbent, with Ralph Ineson (Peaky Blinders) as The Clothier. The series will premiere on 31 May on BBC Two, with all episodes available immediately on BBC iPlayer from the same date.īased on the book by Benjamin Myers, Shane Meadows fictionalises the remarkable true story of the rise of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners. The exhilarating trailer for Shane Meadows’ three-part series The Gallows Pole drops today, starring Michael Socha (This Is England, Papillon) and Sophie McShera (Cinderella, Downton Abbey).

Candy Man by Amy Lane