Here is what Richard has said…

I get quite geeky with music things. Most recently I’ve become obsessed with Buddy Holly and Elvis and that sort of retro rock, so I went out and bought a record player and am gradually building up a bizarre vinyl collection, based on anything I can find in charity shops. I also like Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty, Alan Jackson and Hank Williams, not to mention the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack.

Does anyone know much about this, I’d love to know when it’s realeased, here is a trailer and images. Check out the official site.

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The episode of Skins that Richard was in, is on tonight at 11.25 on Channel 4 for anyone who hasn’t seen it or wants to watch again.

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I have added screencaps and clips from Stanley Park’s Pilot, I was trying to get the clips all together but my Windows Movie Maker will only add them into music not video for some reason.

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But back to Carrie. No doubt the Sex and the City hook seemed like rather a good idea when it was dreamed up in the boardroom; why not try and tag a fledgling comedy on to the hip international juggernaut of the moment? Of course, it doesn’t look so smart now, given the critical pasting that SATC2 has taken. The writers couldn’t have anticipated that, though it does rather foreshadow the tone of Stanley Park, which, in truth, wasn’t quite up to the high standards that Pulse set last week.

The rather old-fashioned bedroom farce of a plot (girl fancies boy but best friend ends up sleeping with him while meaning to seduce his bother) was increasingly engaging thanks to the strength of the young cast’s performances. Richard Southgate was particularly good, I thought, as “Bent Ben”, the Beyoncé-loving, Kate Moss-worshipping GBF. It was a potentially problematic role, pandering as it did to every romcom coming-out stereotype, but, somehow, Southgate pulled it off to become the one whose side you were always on. The other leads were well-played too. Holliday Grainger was positively luscious as the pouting local sex bomb “dirty Debbie” and Jennie Jacques convincing, if a little mature-looking, as the highly strung poet Raggedy Ann. All three offered a unique element of youthful energy, promising great things to come. There were some great comedy moments – particularly enjoyable was the sight of Debby, mid-shag, snacking on a packet of chicken crisps, nonchalantly greeting the horrified parents of her prey as they returned from an evening out, though, in all, I’m not sure that I can see Stanley Park as much of a series. Perhaps a brief, digital-only one to test the waters. Any longevity it might have, though, as a sexy-boozy teen comedy is rather tempered by the presence infinitely more yoof-friendly Skins. But as an off-beat break from the norm, well, things could have been a lot worse.

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What’s Stanley Park all about?
Stanley Park is a new comedy drama about a group of friends who all live in the same road in Croydon. It’s about the way they have a lot of growing up to do, and start finding out who they really are. Trouble is they’ve all got a few secrets that they have to hide from each other. It’s quite difficult to hide them. It’s very funny at times, as it goes on there’s also a lot of moving parts in it that get quite powerful.   

Tell me a bit about Ben, what’s he like?
Ben, or Bent Ben as he’s known by his friends, he’s very sharp, bright, quick, very effeminate. He had more Barbies than action men growing up, so pretty much his friends named him that a good few years ago. He’s not quite ready to come out yet, unfortunately there is a dead giveaway which most of his friends know about, which is he fancies Harry, who lives across the road, but everyone else does too.

So it’s not that unusual given everyone else fancies Harry as well?
Quite, exactly, he’s just fitting in.

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Rising star Richard Southgate (seen as Matt, suicide Sophia’s brother in Skins) plays Bent Ben, who is very bright and articulate and incredibly camp – it is a genuine campness, not over egged. He is the most rounded out of all the teenagers. Very sensitive, quick witted, snappy and highly strung, Ben is a good person, a loyal, decent friend and he is most definitely gay but is in denial throughout the pilot. Richard Southgate also appeared in the West End teen musical Spring Awakening.

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I have added the first images from Stanley Park. He looks amazing.

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It airs tomorrow on BBC3 at 9pm.

Watch a clip on Bent Ben here.