Top Boy 3 preps summer filming
The third series of urban crime drama Top Boy is readying a summer shoot in London; Netflix has worldwide rights.
The show is created and written by Ronan Bennett, and executive produced by the original creative team – Charles Steel and Alasdair Flind (for Cowboy Films), Ronan Bennett (for Easter Partisan) and Yann Demange.
Also exec-producing this time around will be entertainer and producer Drake and his business partner Adel “Future” Nur, along with Maverick Carter and Jamal Henderson for SpringHill Entertainment.
Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo is on board as series producer.
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Photo via Getty Images/Toronto Star/Steve Russell.
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