{"id":76183,"date":"2025-10-15T12:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/76183\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:33:10","slug":"adolescence-star-stephen-graham-launches-fathers-and-sons-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/76183\/","title":{"rendered":"Adolescence star Stephen Graham launches fathers and sons book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For several weeks earlier this year, Adolescence dominated the news agenda, and eventually went on to become Netflix&#8217;s second most watched English-language series ever (after the first season of Wednesday).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UK government supported Netflix&#8217;s proposal to make the drama available to schools. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said there was a need to tackle the &#8220;emerging and growing problem&#8221; the show raised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many critics shared the sentiment in their reviews. &#8220;If you&#8217;re a parent to a school-age boy&#8230; it will chill your blood,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tv\/2025\/03\/19\/adolescence-review-it-will-chill-the-blood-of-any-parent-of\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said the Telegraph&#8217;s Anita Singh, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is a drama so quietly devastating that I won&#8217;t forget it for a very long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The show went on to win several Emmy awards in the US. Its young star, Owen Cooper, 15, was named best supporting actor in a limited series for his portrayal of a schoolboy accused of murdering a classmate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The four-part drama also won best limited series, as well as prizes for its directing and writing, and acting prizes for Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For several weeks earlier this year, Adolescence dominated the news agenda, and eventually went on to become Netflix&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[412,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-76183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}