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No laughing matter
Alex Smith, creative director at Big Boys and Stath Lets Flats producer Roughcut, considers the challenge of moving into drama when you’re known for being funny as the company launches Channel 5 thriller Coma.
High drama
Showrunner Chris Brancato and director Guillermo Navarro invite DQ to stay at Hotel Cocaine, a crime drama set in 1970s Miami at the time of a huge explosion in the drug’s use and where a hotel manager is pitted in a war between federal agents and his drug-lord brother.
Under no illusions
Actor and producer Alexandra Rapaport tells DQ about her love of crime series and why she was attracted to playing the protagonist in Swedish supernatural thriller Veronika, in which the title character is haunted by visions that might relate to a recent murder.
André Holland leads The Big Cigar for Apple TV+
FIRST LOOK: Here’s André Holland (The Eddy) as Huey P Newton in The Big Cigar, a biopic of the Black Panther leader launching on Apple TV+ in May.
Prime Video targets Swedish series Blind Spot
FIRST LOOK: Ida Engvoll (Love & Anarchy) takes the lead in Prime Video’s Swedish drama Blind Spot, an adaptation of Anne Holt’s crime novel 1222 that features detective Hanne Wilhelmsen.
Channel 5 hires new Teacher
Channel 5 has ordered a second season of its 2022 drama The Teacher, featuring a different story and a new cast led by Kara Tointon, Will Mellor and Emmett J Scanlan.
Gentlemanly appearance
Production designer Martyn John and costume designer LouLou Bontemps escort DQ into the world of The Gentlemen to detail how they created the look and fashion of Guy Ritchie’s series based on his 2019 film.
Crossing over
Thereza Falcão and Alessandro Marson, the writers behind Elas Por Elas (Crossed Paths), reveal why they wanted to remake this 1980s telenovela for modern audiences and outline how they did it.
Extraction points
Extraktoři (The Extractors) director Roman Kašparovský opens up about the challenges of filming the Czech spy drama overseas and why he chose to ground the series in reality.
Unforgotten back for season six at ITV
ITV cold case drama Unforgotten is back in production, with stars Sinéad Keenan and Sanjeev Bhaskar reuniting for the show’s sixth season.
Telling White Lies
Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer speaks nothing but the truth about the fortuitous circumstances that led her to star in South African crime drama White Lies and how she is building her experience behind the camera as an executive producer.
Disney+ dresses up for Becoming Karl Lagerfeld
FIRST LOOK: Daniel Brühl plays German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld in Disney+ six-part drama Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, which will debut on June 7.