DQ checks out the upcoming schedules to pick 10 new series to watch this November, from a Muhammad Ali biopic and a Spanish psychodrama to a British Cold War thriller set in the world of Killing Eve and a high-concept heist drama starring Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan.
As Friday the 13th prequel Crystal Lake arrives in the UK, showrunner Brad Caleb Kane tells DQ why Pamela Voorhees deserved a story of her own, how he blended character-driven drama with gory, creative kills, and why he calls the series “a show for fans made by a fan.”
In the third part of the DQ100 2026/27, we pick out a range of shows to tune in for and the actors, directors and writers making them, as well as some of the trends and trailblazers worth catching up with.
Ahead of the 70th London Film Festival, which begins tomorrow, DQ picks out the new shows that will premiere over 12 days of films, series and immersive storytelling.
As filming on ITV crime thriller She Lies in Wait gets underway in Ireland, Clapperboard Studios executive Rachel Gesua tells DQ about the upcoming six-part series, adapting Gytha Lodge’s novel and how the show balances two timelines as detectives investigate the discovery of a body 25 years after a missing persons case.
South African drama Invisible is an adaptation of Deon Meyer’s novel Blood Safari. Stars Dougray Scott and Tim Theron tell DQ about their roles in the action thriller, their approach to character prep and filming everywhere from a prestigious golf course to an animal conservancy.
DQ checks out the upcoming schedules to pick 12 new series to watch this October, from a high-stakes British legal drama and a Canadian mystery thriller to fresh adaptations of Carrie, Treasure Island and East of Eden.
Fightland director Sebastian Thiel tells DQ about shooting the boxing-gym climax of the show’s fourth episode in a single day, drawing on his early low-budget filmmaking career to shape his approach to a big-budget production, and choosing to film the key scene with multiple cameras.
Ahead of the 51st Toronto International Film Festival, which begins on Thursday September 10, DQ picks out the new scripted series getting world, international and North American premieres in the Canadian city.
Just one television series will receive its world premiere at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, which gets underway this week. DQ investigates Italian comedy mockumentary Peccato.
DQ checks out the upcoming schedules to pick 10 new series to watch this September, from a Spanish culinary drama and a contemporary Agatha Christie adaptation to the next instalment of true crime anthology Monster and the final season of German sensation Babylon Berlin.
Black Sands star Aldís Amah Hamilton opens up about finding the nuance in female representation across Nordic noir and explains how the Icelandic crime drama was inspired by series such as Mare of Easttown and The Fall.
As Call My Agent! makes the leap from hit French series to feature film, DQ looks back at the shows that blazed the TV-to-film trail – from Deadwood and Downton Abbey to Luther and Peaky Blinders – and ahead to two more movies on the way.
Jackson Gregory, the head of development for Blackbox Multimedia, reveals how John Hannah and Carolina Bécquer’s protagonists set the right tone for 5 series Benidorm is Murder, and how a Take That tribute act characterised the balance between the serious and the ridiculous.
New Zealand crime drama Bust Up has crossed continents to land on Germany’s ZDF. Producers from both sides of the coproduction tell DQ how a queer buddy-cop romance bridged a 10-hour time difference to reach two very different audiences.
For seven seasons, French series OPJ has followed a police team working in France’s overseas territories. Producer Muriel Alorend takes DQ inside the making of the series – from its origins and how it’s written around seven protagonists to filming in the Indian Ocean.
DQ looks ahead to the second half of 2026 to see what’s coming up on the schedules among the British broadcasters and the global streamers, including legal drama War, ghost story The Witch Farm, police procedural Winter, comedy Break Clause and new takes on Pride & Prejudice and Treasure Island.
DQ checks out the upcoming schedules to pick 10 new series to watch this August, from a psychological thriller set in Jamaica and a crime drama centring on a park ranger to an epic Australian period drama and an animated sitcom from Ricky Gervais.
Ahead of Gone’s Golden Nymph Award nomination, star David Morrissey, director Richard Laxton and executive producer Matt Sandford trace the psychological thriller’s origins, from its private school setting to why every character they create must be in conflict.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of BBC comedy The Office, DQ takes a look at some of the series that have followed in its footsteps by utilising the mockumentary storytelling style that helped to turn Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s creation into a global phenomenon.
