Second series of Benefits Street to hit new low by showing unemployed resident dealing and taking drugs

‘Controversial show Benefits Street will hit a new low when it returns for a second series next month – with scenes of an unemployed resident openly dealing and taking drugs.

Described by some critics as ‘poverty porn’, the programme, filmed in Kingston Road on the Tilery Estate in Stockton-on-Tees, follows on from the first series which made stars of some of the inhabitants of Birmingham’s James Turner Street – notably White Dee.

Among the residents introduced in the first episode is Neil Maxwell who is shown bagging up cannabis, smoking the drug and taking pills before a court appearance.’

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