Year: 2027
Directors: Paul McGuigan (eps 1-3), Andrew Cumming (eps 4-6)
Writers: Graeme Armstrong, Gillian Roger Park (eps 2 & 4), Robert Florence (ep 5)
Executive Producers: Claire Mundell, Paul McGuigan, Adrian Burns, Deanne Cunningham, Gaynor Holmes, Gavin Smith, Kieran Hannigan
Producer: Brian Coffey
Production Company: Synchronicity Films
Main Cast: Jakob James Smith, Connor Newall, Scot Greenan, Kevin McKidd, Laura Fraser, Beinn Catchpole, David Russell, Mick Mack, Caiden Henderson-Brown, Lewis Ray and Jack Mooney
Broadcaster: BBC
Screen Scotland support: The series accessed £800,000 through Screen Scotland’s Broadcast Content Fund
Synopsis
Adapted from Graeme Armstrong’s award-winning novel of the same name, The Young Team follows, fifteen-year-old Azzy Williams and his pals roam the streets of Airdrie on a Friday night, bottles of tonic wine in hand and techno playing from tinny speakers. Azzy is ready. Ready to smoke, pop pills, drink wine and fight. He longs to become fully initiated into local gang – ‘The YTP’.
But when Azzy, determined to prove himself, makes a bold move, a brutal gang conflict ensues with Azzy very firmly at its heart.
The Young Team explores friendship, identity, territorial violence and belonging as he and his mates become postcode warriors in a toxic cycle that threatens to consume them.
An unflinching look at the realities of addiction and gang violence, this ambitious series will tell a powerful story about the realities of life for young, disenfranchised people, and the fight for a different future.
More information
Broadcast: The series will stream on BBC iPlayer and air on BBC One.
Image credits: Image courtesy of Synchronicity Film / BBC