dramedies

"Nicholas Lyndhurst - Dan Griffin"

"James Bolam - John "Jack" Halford"

"Dennis Waterman - Gerry Standing"

"Alun Armstrong - Brian Lane"

"Anthony Calf - DAC Robert Strickland"

"Denis Lawson - Steve McAndrew"

"Tamzin Outhwaite - DCI Sasha Miller"

"Amanda Redman - DSI Sandra Pullman"

"Jodie Comer - Chloe"

"Claire Rushbrook - Rae's mum"

"Ciara Baxendale - Izzy"

"Darren Evans - Danny Two Hats"

"Jordan Murphy - Chop"

"Ian Hart - Kester"

"Dan Cohen - Archie"

"Sophie Wright - Tix"

"Sharon Rooney - Rachel 'Rae' Earl"

"Bamshad Abedi-Amin - Karim"

"Shazad Latif - Dr. Nick Kassar"

"Eliot Otis Brown Walters - Big G"

"Nico Mirallegro - Finn"

"Andrew Lincoln - Simon Casey"

"Adrian Bower - Brian Steadman"

"Navin Chowdhry - Kurt McKenna"

"Gillian Bevan - Clare Hunter"

"Nina Sosanya - Jenny Paige"

"Raquel Cassidy - Susan Gately"

"No they're not, otherwise why would I like them so much?"

"I'm not like other boys..."

"Most 14-year-old boys in 1998 were fancying girls and playing football."

"Natasha O'Keeffe as Abbey"

"Matt Stokoe as Alex"

"Joseph Gilgun as Rudy Wade"

"Matthew McNulty as Seth"

"Karla Crome as Jess"

"Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as Curtis Donovan"

"I never wanted it to be a group of teenagers who were pally from the very start. I hate that convention in teen drama where they meet and instantly become high-fiving friends for no apparent reason. I felt I had to really work for that as a writer and earn the right for them to have a relationship. It's a gradual process; it has to feel organic. When one of the characters gets in trouble in episode two, they don't immediately say, "Yes, let us help you, now we are the Fantastic Four we must work together to fight crime!" It can't work like that."

"Robert Sheehan as Nathan Young"

"Antonia Thomas as Alisha Daniels"

"Nathan McMullen as Finn"

"Lauren Socha as Kelly Bailey"

"Iwan Rheon as Simon Bellamy"

"More important than any message for me was the question of how you handle being a superhero when society is already looking down on you. That's the experience of a young offender. It's also about having the responsibility of greater powers; my characters don't always use it for the greater good. That's where the fun starts."

"I guess that's why I never felt it was an impossible challenge to get into the mind of a teenager. I'm 36 now but I'm pretty certain falling in love at 16 is the same as it was 20 years ago"

"Cameron Nugent - Craig Jelly"

"Georgina Naidu - Phrani Gupta"

"Bryony Price - Jules Jelly"

"Cassandra Magrath - Miranda Gibson"

"Christopher Lyons - Trevor Findlay"

"Kane McNay - Rupert Gibson"