Articles about ITV
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.
Eye of the storm
Writer Peter A Dowling and executive producers Julie Gardner and Lachlan MacKinnon take DQ aboard ITV’s upcoming thriller Red Eye to discuss making this locked-room mystery, filming on a plane and the importance of authentic representation.
ITV reveals Lucy Boynton in A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story
FIRST LOOK: Lucy Boynton stars as Ruth Ellis in forthcoming ITV drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, which details the hidden story behind the last woman in Britain to be hanged.
Unmasking the pandemic
Three writers, all with medical backgrounds, have come together to chart the NHS experience during the Covid-19 pandemic. Rachel Clarke, Prasanna Puwanarajah and Jed Mercurio explain why ITV’s Breathtaking might be the most important drama they will ever write.
ITV climbs aboard Passenger
FIRST LOOK: Wunmi Mosaku (Loki) stars in Passenger, an ITV drama about a detective investigating a series of strange crimes in a close-knit community.
Green thinking
As television drama goes green on-screen and behind the camera, four executives reveal how they are helping to create sustainable productions and reduce their carbon footprint.
Flood for thought
On the set of ITV drama After the Flood, DQ learns how this six-part drama blends a murder mystery with a discussion about climate change, and why the cast and crew sought to make its dramatic water sequences as believable as possible.
Urgent delivery
ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office dramatises one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in UK history – a scandal that criminalised hundreds of Post Office managers. Writer Gwyneth Hughes, director James Strong and star Toby Jones discuss the importance and difficulty of telling this true story.
Call me Cary
DQ says hello to Jason Isaacs on the set of his ITV drama Archie, where the actor reveals the lengths he has gone to transform himself into the man who would become Cary Grant, for a biopic about the British Hollywood star’s life on and off screen.
Winds of change
Lenny Henry, creator and writer of ITV drama Three Little Birds, and star Saffron Coomber reflect on the real-life stories and experiences that inform this six-parter about three young women who leave Jamaica to start a new life in 1950s Britain.
Payback time
Writer Debbie O’Malley, director Jennie Darnell and executive producer Madonna Baptiste tell DQ how they flipped the script on crime thrillers by putting an ordinary woman at the heart of ITV drama Payback.
Out of the Shadow
The Long Shadow writer George Kay and executive producer Willow Grylls speak to DQ about their decision to dramatise the story of serial killer Peter Sutcliffe and how they put the victims at the heart of the series.
Murderous music
Composer Evan Jolly tells DQ about his work writing the music for long-running murder-mystery series Midsomer Murders, creating its quirky English soundtrack and his favourite moments from the show so far.
Boardroom battle
As ITVX original Riches arrives on ITV1, creator and writer Abby Ajayi breaks down a scene from episode four, in which the feuds and rivalries at the centre of the series come to a head in a boardroom showdown.
Eternal love
ITVX comedy-drama Significant Other marks the latest on-screen role for Kéllé Bryan, who tells DQ how she has moved from chart-topping Eternal singer to television actor.
Significant developments
DQ heads to Manchester to meet the cast and creative team behind ‘anti-romcom’ Significant Other, an adaptation of an Israeli series that brings together two unlikely soulmates. But as ever, the path to true love doesn’t run smoothly…
Mum’s the word
In three-part drama Maryland, a pair of estranged sisters discover their mother’s secret life after her sudden death. Star and co-creator Suranne Jones discusses her partnership behind the camera with writer Anne-Marie O’Connor and director Sue Tully.
Me and Mr Jones
Tom Jones stars Solly McLeod and Pearl Mackie explain how this four-part adaptation of Henry Fielding’s 18th century novel brings a modern sensibility to the classic story of two people from opposite sides of society destined to find true love.
Hit for Six Four
Six Four transplants the basis of a Japanese novel to the streets of Glasgow, where the disappearance of a young girl has haunting parallels to a previously unsolved case. Creator Gregory Burke and stars Kevin McKidd and Vinette Robinson reveal more.
Redirecting the future
Unforgotten director Andy Wilson charts the journey to finding the right character and actor to replace Nicola Walker’s departing DCI Cassie Stuart in ITV’s acclaimed cold-case drama.