It seems so:
'News of another British classic (also appearing on the Observer's Top 25 list): Shane Meadows is making the sequel to This Is England - as a four-part television series. The show will move the action on four years from the end of the film and bring back many of the main characters, including Thomas Turgoose as wannabe skinhead Shaun. Entitled We Were Faces, the series will be set in 1986 and finds Shaun preparing to leave school and enter the grown-up world.
It will be co-written by Meadows with Jack Thorne, who penned The Scouting Book For Boys, which has just been filmed with Turgoose in a major role. Meadows revealed his plans for the project while promoting his latest low-budget film, Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee, a mockumentary starring Paddy Considine. This Is England of course, suffered from an 18 certification, due to some racist swearing and violence. The certification angered Meadows as he believed it prevented many young people, for whom the film might have contained useful lessons, from seeing it. The TV sequel will thus open the characters and themes up to an even wider audience.'
SOURCE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/aug/30/trailer-trash-simon-pegg by Jason Solomons
'This is England' Sequel Straight to Small Screens
By next year, it'll be four years since Shane Meadows' This is England came out and stood out as a well-observed portrait of growing up of '80s-era England, so it seems fitting that any follow-up would also take place four years after the fact. According to Screen Daily, that's just the idea, as Meadows prepares to do a four-part series called "We Were Faces" for the UK's Channel Four which will chronicle the characters as their lives have progressed by 1986.I haven't had the chance yet to see this summer's Somers Town, the latest from Meadows and young star Thomas Turgoose, but the latter has certainly made an impression for himself between England and Eden Lake. Between that one and Somers Town, he took home the London Film Critics' Young British Performer of the Year award, so he must be doing something right, and there's a unique pleasure in seeing a young talent grow up and grow out in their work.[SOURCE: http://www.cinematical.com/2009/08/27/this-is-england-sequel-straight-to-small-screens/]
'Thomas Turgoose, the young actor who won a British Independent Film Award for his performance in the film, returns to play the main character Shaun as he leaves school and begins to make his way in the world.
The four hour-long episodes will continue the adventures of the skinhead gang in 1986, as Chris de Burgh is at number one in the charts, Top Gun is filling the cinemas, VHS is beating Betamax, the World Cup is being played in Mexico and more than 3 million people are unemployed.
Meadows said: "When I finished This Is England I had a wealth of material and unused ideas that I felt very keen to take further - audiences seemed to really respond to the characters we created and out of my long standing relationship with Film4 and Channel 4 the idea for a television serial developed.
"Not only did I want to take the story of the gang broader and deeper, I also saw in the experiences of the young in 1986 many resonances to now - recession, lack of jobs, sense of the world at a turning point. Whereas the film told part of the story, the TV serial will tell the rest."
As with This Is England, the title of the new drama is taken from a line of the script'
SOURCE: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/this-is-england-sequel-heads-channel-4-drama-revamp-1777469.html by Damon Wake
MORE UPDATES:
Interview with Thomas Turgoose from 13.3.10: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/mar/13/thomas-turgoose-scouting-book
MORE UPDATES:
Interview with Thomas Turgoose from 13.3.10: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/mar/13/thomas-turgoose-scouting-book
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