Adolescence was the first streaming series to place at the top of the Barb Audiences weekly television ratings.
Fans of Netflix’s smash-hit Adolescence are set to be delighted as acclaimed actor Stephen Graham turns his attention to a compelling new follow-up venture. The psychological crime drama, which has prompted calls for change, made history as the first streaming series to top the Barb Audiences weekly television ratings.
Speculation over a second series has also been mounting, with Deadline Hollywood reporting in April 2025 that Netflix and Plan B Entertainment had entered into discussions.
Now, Graham has unveiled an ambitious project featuring a wealth of well-known faces — a book entitled Letters to Our Sons — which brings together letters from fathers across the globe to their sons, exploring what it “means to be a man”. Due for release on Thursday, September 24, the book boasts contributions from actors Danny Dyer, Javier Bardem, Daniel Mays, Michael Socha, Ashley Walters and Riz Ahmed.
Sporting figures including Olympic champion Tom Daley, alongside footballers Chris Kamara and Jamie Redknapp, have also lent their voices to the project, joined by writer Jack Thorne, comedian Romesh Ranganathan, presenter Jeff Brazier, musician Goldie, Educating Yorkshire’s Matthew Burton, and documentary-maker Louis Theroux.
Graham has been championing the book on Instagram, with signed copies now available to pre-order at most bookshops.
The blurb reads: “What advice do you wish you’d shared before your son’s first day at school? When he missed or scored that goal? Or the day he left home?
“When was the last time you hugged him? And what would you do if you had your time again?”
“Award-winning actor Stephen Graham and psychology lecturer Orly Klein have invited fathers from all walks of life to put into words the things they couldn’t say out loud to their sons.
“Full of hope, fear, shame and pride, Letters to Our Sons is a raw and extraordinary outpouring of the sometimes messy, often joyful, and always complex realities of modern fatherhood.”
Upon the project’s launch, Graham revealed that Adolescence had made him recognise “there was a greater need for communication between fathers and sons”.
Speaking to the BBC, he said: “We want to hear from men of all ages, first-time fathers, absent fathers, fathers who’ve been there but never truly been there, fathers who’ve lost and fathers who just want to find a way to say I love you.”
Adolescence ignited a nationwide debate surrounding the influence of social media and toxic masculinity, prompting discussions between UK politicians and the show’s creators, and was made freely available to schools across the UK.
Source: South Wales Echo