West 10 LDN
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| Also known as | W10 LDN West 10 London |
| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Noel Clarke |
| Directed by | Menhaj Huda |
| Starring |
Ashley Madekwe Duane Henry Noel Clarke Ashley Walters |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 1 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Menhaj Huda Derek Wax |
| Producer(s) | Tim Cole |
| Location(s) | London |
| Cinematography | Duncan Telford |
| Editor(s) | Chris Muckle |
| Running time | 57 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Kudos Film & Television |
| Distributor | BBC |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC Three |
| Original release | 10 March 2008 |
West 10 LDN (also known as W10 LDN and West 10 London) was a one-off BBC Three urban drama broadcast on 10 March 2008.
After the success of his urban drama film Kidulthood, Menhaj Huda decided to adapt a similar format for television. As such, he acquired the rights to Society Within, a book of short stories, written by Courttia Newland to develop into a TV Series and teamed up with the award-winning production company Kudos Film & Television, known for their work on Life On Mars, Spooks, Hustle, with writer Noel Clarke, producer Tim Cole and executive producer Derek Wax getting behind the project. West 10 LDN, a sixty-minute pilot to be broadcast as part of BBC Three's Drama Pilot Season, in which six different one-hour pilots were broadcast, with the highest-rated being made into an official six-part series. West 10 LDN featured Ashley Madekwe and Duane Henry as its lead actors, with Clarke appearing in a minor role. West 10 LDN was set entirely in the fictional Greenside council housing estate in West London, which in reality, is the White City Estate. West 10 LDN first was broadcast on 10 March 2008 on BBC Three. It received critical acclaim from fans of Kidulthood and Adulthood, however, according to the Clarke's official MySpace page, BBC Three controllers Danny Cohen and Jane Tranter made the decision not to commission West 10 LDN into a full series.
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