Neil Patrick Harris, Keeley Hawes and Stephen Fry to star in Russell T Davies' 1980s AIDS epidemic series Boys for Britain's Channel 4

Variety

A five-part series scheduled to air in 2020, Boys charts the lives of a group of young gay men who find themselves caught up in the blooming AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. Davies, who's coming off of the critically acclaimed Years and Years, has been working on Boys for nearly 5 years. "It’s the kind of story that you think has been told, but then you realize it hasn’t been told in Britain,” he said in January 2015. “I am amazed that I haven’t written this before – I am amazed no one has. I think we are reaching a bit of a generational thing now where men like me in their 50s are looking back and realizing how shocking it was.”