Watch the official trailer for TV series Somewhere Boy<\/h3>\n

Pete Jackson made his writing debut on a TV series with Channel 4’s hit Somewhere Boy, released last year.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

His father had raised him completely indoors away from the outside world, leaving him to face many new beginnings in the series.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

“Issues like masculinity, being young, being a parent, love and abuse and everything else all come together in a small story.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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  “That there’s right and wrong and there’s good and bad.<\/p>\n

  “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.”<\/p>\n

  Somewhere Boy is available to watch on Channel 4 on demand<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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  See the full BAFTA Breakthrough list below.<\/strong><\/p>\n

  UK BAFTA Breakthroughs:<\/h2>\n

  Adjani Salmon, writer\/performer\/exec producer \u2013 Dreaming Whilst Black<\/p>\n

  Bella Ramsey, performer \u2013 The Last of Us<\/p>\n

  Cash Carraway, creator\/writer\/exec producer \u2013 Rain Dogs<\/p>\n

  Charlotte Regan, writer\/director \u2013 Scrapper<\/p>\n

  Cynthia De La Rosa, hair & makeup artist \u2013 Everyone Else Burns<\/p>\n

  Ella Glendining, director \u2013 Is There Anybody Out There?<\/p>\n

  Funmi Olutoye, lead producer \u2013 \u2018Black History Makers\u2019 (Good Morning Britain)<\/p>\n

  Georgia Oakley, writer\/director \u2013 Blue Jean<\/p>\n

  Holly Reddaway, voice and performance director \u2013 Baldur\u2019s Gate 3<\/p>\n

  Joel Beardshaw, lead designer – Desta: The Memories Between<\/p>\n

  Kat Morgan, hair & makeup designer \u2013 Blue Jean<\/p>\n

  Kathryn Ferguson, writer\/director \u2013 Nothing Compares<\/p>\n

  Kitt (Fiona) Byrne, 2D artist\/game designer – Gibbon: Beyond the Trees<\/p>\n

  Michael Anderson, producer – Desta: The Memories Between<\/p>\n

  Pete Jackson, writer\/creator \u2013 Somewhere Boy<\/p>\n

  Raine Allen-Miller, director \u2013 Rye Lane<\/p>\n

  Rosy McEwen, performer \u2013 Blue Jean<\/p>\n

  Samantha B\u00e9art, performer – The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow<\/p>\n

  Talisha \u2018Tee Cee\u2019 Johnson, writer\/director\/presenter \u2013 Too Autistic for Black<\/p>\n

  Vivian Oparah, performer \u2013 Rye Lane<\/p>\n

  US BAFTA Breakthroughs:<\/h2>\n

  Amanda Kim, documentary director – Nam June Paik: Moon Is The Oldest TV<\/p>\n

  Aminah Nieves, performer – 1923 and Blueberry (Film\/TV)<\/p>\n

  Apoorva Charan, producer – Joyland<\/p>\n

  Cheyenne Pualani Morrin, senior games writer – Star Wars Jedi: Survivor<\/p>\n

  Edward Buckles Jr. documentary director – Katrina Babies<\/p>\n

  Gary Gunn, composer – A Thousand and One<\/p>\n

  Jingyi Shao, writer & director – Chang Can Dunk<\/p>\n

  Maria Altamirano, producer – All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt<\/p>\n

  Santiago Gonzalez, cinematographer – Shortcomings<\/p>\n

  Shelly Yo, writer & director – Smoking Tigers<\/p>\n

  Sing J Lee, writer & director – The Accidental Getaway Driver<\/p>\n

  Vuk Lungulov-Klotz, writer & director – Mutt<\/p>\n

  India BAFTA Breakthroughs:<\/h2>\n

  Abhay Koranne, writer – Rocket Boys<\/p>\n

  Abhinav Tyagi, editor – An Insignificant Man<\/p>\n

  Don Chacko Palathara, director\/writer – Joyful Mystery<\/p>\n

  Kislay, director \u2013 Soni<\/p>\n

  Lipika Singh Darai, director\/writer – Some Stories Around Witches<\/p>\n

  Miriam Chandy Menacherry, producer – From the Shadows and The Leopard’s Tribe<\/p>\n

  Pooja Rajkumar Rathod, cinematographer – Secrets of the Elephants<\/p>\n

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