I rather enjoyed the Boy George drama 'Worried About The Boy' on BBC2 last night.

Douglas Booth did a grand job of portraying the many faces of Boy George (although a few extra pies could have been eaten). Mark Gatiss did a remarkable cameo as a waspish Malcolm Mclaren and best of all was Marc Warren with his wonderful portrayal of Steve Strange.

A few bits of artistic licence (pretty sure Kirk Brandon never got near the TOTP studio) and the band rehearsal scenes required some suspension of belief but otherwise most rock-biopic cliches were sidestepped by concentrating on the young O'Dowd and the men in his life. The action veering between the 'Young Ones' style squat and the Blitz Club, jump-cutting to the end of the 80s and his Hamstead home, with the Boy staked out by the Tabloids and strung out on smack.

And lo and behold, the scene where Boy George auditions for Mclaren in would appear to be shot in the very same hairdressers in Manchester where I get my barnet trimmed. Crown Barbers of Deansgate.

What did strike me though was how much drama there is left in this story, which is still ongoing. You could easily have filled another 90 mins of gripping drama with George, Marilyn and Steve Strange.

Still available on iPlayer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sh5lt/b00sh5kx/Worried_About_the...