The acting is absolutely excellent, but the script isn’t great. This show lacks the dread of William Golding’s novel ...
Each of the boys is treated with greater empathy by Thorne’s script than they are in the book: Jack and Simon are shown to be ...
Adolescence became one of the most successful shows in 2025 due to its well-crafted storyline, the characters, and the way ...
Thorne has reimagined William Golding’s 1954 literary classic.
BBC’s take on Lord of the Flies hit screens on February 8, 2026, landing on both BBC One and iPlayer. This is the first time ...
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Lord of the Flies: The perfect book for Jack Thorne to adapt for TV
Lord of the Flies is a seismic, chilling masterpiece – of course, Adolescence creator Jack Thorne chose to adapt it - IN ...
Lord of the Flies has become such a shorthand for a descent into savagery, a warning of what lies beneath the surface of ...
As his new version of Lord of the Flies comes to the BBC, we count down the 20 boldest and most moving productions by the quintuple Bafta-winning scriptwriter ...
Jack Thorne, co-writer of Netflix smash "Adolescence," will talk at a session, In Conversation With Jack Thorne, that looks ...
Thorne describes this as a "relay race" between the leads, starting with Piggy (David McKenna), the intellectual voice of ...
Adolescence writer Jack Thorne has hinted at a sequel show to the highly-acclaimed This Is England series. Read on for more ...
Two of Jack Thorne's recent projects have a fair bit in common. Thorne told a screening last week of his adaptation of ...
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