EastEnders' Danny Dyer joins Stephen Graham in groundbreaking follow-up to Adolescence

Fans of Netflix's phenomenon Adolescence are in for a treat as legendary actor Stephen Graham is working on a poignant new follow-up project. The psychological crime drama was the first streaming series to place at the top of the Barb Audiences weekly television ratings. There have even been talks of a second season as in April 2025, Deadline Hollywood reported Netflix and Plan B Entertainment were in discussions.

Now, actor Graham has announced a groundbreaking project with a whole host of famous faces taking part - a book titled Letters to Our Sons - which contains letters from multiple fathers from around the world to their sons about the various ways it "means to be a man". The book will be released on Thursday, September 24 and contributers include actors Danny Dyer, Javier Bardem, Daniel Mays, Michael Socha, Ashley Walters and Riz Ahmed.

Sporting stars like Olympian Tom Daley and footballers Chris Kamara and Jamie Redknapp have also come on board, along with writer Jack Thorne, comedian Romesh Ranganathan, presenter Jeff Brazier, musician Goldie, Educating Yorkshire's Matthew Burton, and documentary-maker Louis Theroux.

Actor Graham has been promoting 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."

Graham said when the project was launched that Adolescence helped him realise "there was a greater need for communication between fathers and sons".

He told the BBC: "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 sparked a national conversation about the impact of social media and toxic masculinity, even leading to meetings between UK politicians and the programme's creators, and was made available to UK schools for free.

Letters to Our Sons will be released on September 24.