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Pete Jackson made his writing debut on a TV series with Channel 4’s hit Somewhere Boy, released last year.
The series was an immediate success, with Pete winning a Bafta for Emerging Talent in 2022, as well as scooping up a Drama Writer nomination.
Pete has now been named as an honoree for the Bafta Breakthrough for the series, which centres around an 18-year-old boy as he is faced with making his way in the world after the death of his father.
His father had raised him completely indoors away from the outside world, leaving him to face many new beginnings in the series.
Speaking to Express.co.uk about Somewhere Boys’ success, Pete admitted: “I think because it doesn’t feel like anything else or much else that’s on television. In terms of the storytelling, it’s not very traditional.
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“I think it speaks to a lot of feelings that are important to people at the moment, the high concepts we have.
“Issues like masculinity, being young, being a parent, love and abuse and everything else all come together in a small story.”
Somewhere Boy had a message behind it, with Pete explaining: “We live in a very polarised world where people are left to look at it in quite binary terms.
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“That there’s right and wrong and there’s good and bad.
“With Somewhere Boy, a show mainly about Monsters, we wanted to explore this idea that the world is mainly full of complicated people trying to be good.”
Somewhere Boy is available to watch on Channel 4 on demand
See the full BAFTA Breakthrough list below.
UK BAFTA Breakthroughs:
Adjani Salmon, writer/performer/exec producer – Dreaming Whilst Black
Bella Ramsey, performer – The Last of Us
Cash Carraway, creator/writer/exec producer – Rain Dogs
Charlotte Regan, writer/director – Scrapper
Cynthia De La Rosa, hair & makeup artist – Everyone Else Burns
Ella Glendining, director – Is There Anybody Out There?
Funmi Olutoye, lead producer – ‘Black History Makers’ (Good Morning Britain)
Georgia Oakley, writer/director – Blue Jean
Holly Reddaway, voice and performance director – Baldur’s Gate 3
Joel Beardshaw, lead designer – Desta: The Memories Between
Kat Morgan, hair & makeup designer – Blue Jean
Kathryn Ferguson, writer/director – Nothing Compares
Kitt (Fiona) Byrne, 2D artist/game designer – Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Michael Anderson, producer – Desta: The Memories Between
Pete Jackson, writer/creator – Somewhere Boy
Raine Allen-Miller, director – Rye Lane
Rosy McEwen, performer – Blue Jean
Samantha Béart, performer – The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow
Talisha ‘Tee Cee’ Johnson, writer/director/presenter – Too Autistic for Black
Vivian Oparah, performer – Rye Lane
US BAFTA Breakthroughs:
Amanda Kim, documentary director – Nam June Paik: Moon Is The Oldest TV
Aminah Nieves, performer – 1923 and Blueberry (Film/TV)
Apoorva Charan, producer – Joyland
Cheyenne Pualani Morrin, senior games writer – Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Edward Buckles Jr. documentary director – Katrina Babies
Gary Gunn, composer – A Thousand and One
Jingyi Shao, writer & director – Chang Can Dunk
Maria Altamirano, producer – All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Santiago Gonzalez, cinematographer – Shortcomings
Shelly Yo, writer & director – Smoking Tigers
Sing J Lee, writer & director – The Accidental Getaway Driver
Vuk Lungulov-Klotz, writer & director – Mutt
India BAFTA Breakthroughs:
Abhay Koranne, writer – Rocket Boys
Abhinav Tyagi, editor – An Insignificant Man
Don Chacko Palathara, director/writer – Joyful Mystery
Kislay, director – Soni
Lipika Singh Darai, director/writer – Some Stories Around Witches
Miriam Chandy Menacherry, producer – From the Shadows and The Leopard’s Tribe
Pooja Rajkumar Rathod, cinematographer – Secrets of the Elephants
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