Giving it their Best shot
A Finnish crime drama investigates the mystery behind a teenage girl’s disappearance, set against the backdrop of a Helsinki suburb in the late 1980s. Director Saara Saarela and executive producer Minna Haapkylä introduce All the Best Girls.
Series to Watch: December 2025
DQ checks out the upcoming schedules to pick 10 new series to watch this December, from a Doctor Who spin-off and a Spanish crime thriller to a darkly comedic Australian series and two new period dramas charting the life of iconic composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
No time to lie
Actor Shaun Evans and executive producer Tom Leggett discuss how their off-screen partnership paved the way for ITV drama Betrayal, which blends espionage intrigue and domestic drama to tell the story of a spy facing up to a midlife crisis.
The road to freedom
Prisoner 951 star Narges Rashidi, writer Stephen Butchard and director Philippa Lowthorpe reveal how they dramatised the years-long story of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s detention in Iran and her husband Richard Ratcliffe’s fight for justice in the UK.
Mission to Mars
Japanese sci-fi drama Queen of Mars looks to the future with a story set between Mars and Earth. Executive producer Satoru Watanabe and chief director Takegorō Nishimura tell DQ about making this ambitious yet timeless project.
Breaking the ice
Six-part drama Hildur brings Satu Rämö’s surfing and knitting detective to the small screen. Writers Matti Laine and Margrét Örnólfsdóttir, director Tinna Hrafnsdóttir and executive producer Eero Hietala unpack how they made this ‘Nordic blue’ crime series.
Boardroom bombshell
Pia Strietmann, director of Herrhausen – The Banker & the Bomb, tells DQ how she found a modern film language for this German-language drama and identifies a key scene that “holds the soul of the series.”
Having a blast
Trigger Point star Nabil Elouahabi reflects on three seasons of making ITV’s tense bomb-disposal drama, hitting the show’s sweet spot and why he stands against ‘second screening.’
A brush with murder
Created by Aram Rappaport for his platform The Network, The Artist transports viewers to the Gilded Age for a story of murder and ambition featuring a host of celebrities of the era. Rappaport tells DQ six things we need to know about this six-part series.
Second act
Director Azhur Saleem discusses his work on historical romance Outlander: Blood of my Blood, returning for its second season and his love of “old-school romantic epics.”
Drama in spades
Director Douglas Mackinnon teases a pivotal moment in six-part psychological thriller The Ridge, a cross-cultural coproduction between BBC Scotland and Sky New Zealand.
Gently does it
BBC series Small Prophets is Mackenzie Crook’s spiritual successor to the acclaimed Detectorists. He joins producer Gill Isles to outline the “gentle” new comedy, his decision to move behind the camera and creating the show’s animated stars.
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