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Somewhere Boy doesnt feel like anything else says writer Pete Jackson

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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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