[Susan Foreman]

Coming sometime in 2019

Channel 4 announces hard-hitting Aids drama 'The Boys' from 'Queer as Folk' writer Russell T Davies | Attitude magazine

"The Boys is a five-part drama following the story of three boys, Ritchie, Roscoe and Colin, who move to London in the early 1980s.

According to an official synopsis "the young trio, strangers at first, leave home at 18 and head off to London in 1981 with hope and ambition and joy. However, they’re walking straight into a plague that most of the world ignores.

"Year by year, episode by episode, their lives change, as the mystery of a new virus starts as a rumour, then a threat, then a terror, and then something that binds them together in the fight.

"It’s the story of their friends, lovers and families too, especially Jill, the girl who loves them and helps them, and galvanises them in the battles to come.

"Together they will endure the horror of the epidemic, the pain of rejection and the prejudices that gay men faced throughout the decade."

"There are terrible losses and wonderful friendships. And complex families, pushed to the limit and beyond. This is a series that remembers the boys we lost, and celebrates those lives that burned so brightly.""