Couch Potato Pickings | This is England - essential viewing if you plan to watch This is England ‘86

A gritty coming-of-age tale, Shane Meadows' This is England is a brilliantly performed film that portrays the skinhead culture of the early 1980s.

And now this powerful movie has inspired a new four-part series which follows the lives of the film's characters four years on.

The first episode of This is England '86 is showing on Channel 4 tomorrow, and the film This is England is showing tonight. I'll be checking it out, will you?

This is England is showing on Channel 4 tonight 6th September at 11.10pm

This is England '86 begins on Channel 4 on Tusday 7th September at 10pm