As Apple TV’s Hijack returns for a second thrilling season, co-creator, executive producer and lead director Jim Field Smith sets the scene for the new story and reveals how viewers will board a Berlin U-Bahn train alongside returning star Idris Elba.
Run Away lead writer and executive producer Danny Brocklehurst reveals why he wanted to bring Harlan Coben’s novel to Netflix, the challenge of dramatising internal monologues and how he developed the show’s unique flashbacks for its opening scenes.
Ahead of the new year, DQ checks out the upcoming schedules to pick 10 new series to watch this January, from a Finnish crime drama and a new Agatha Christie mystery to the return of The Night Manager and a US remake of British drama Doc Martin.
DQ highlights 20 new series expected to air in 2026, featuring nightmarish gnomes, the England men’s football team, the next series from Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee and Richard Gadd’s follow-up to Baby Reindeer.
DQ looks back over the past year of television to pick out 12 shows that were worth tuning in for, from a one-shot phenomenon and a riotous music drama to a tragic tale of forbidden love and a knockout period drama set in the world of illegal bare-knuckle boxing.
An Irish wedding in Tenerife is the setting for murder mystery These Sacred Vows, in which each episode explores the story from a different character’s perspective. Writer and director John Butler reveals how he marries comedy and drama in the six-parter.
The co-CEO and creative director of Rebus and Magpie Murders producer Eleventh Hour Films spotlights her screen hero, a crime drama from “the ultimate storyteller” and an endlessly quotable Royle comedy.
In the final part of the DQ100 2025/26, 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. ACTORS Ioane Sa’ula Recognisable from roles in Australian series Last King of the Cross, The Fall Guy and Bump, Sa’ula will star in new medical drama The F Ward, a six-part series commissioned by streamer Stan. He joins an ensemble cast including Anna Friel, Lola Bond, Dan Wyllie, Alex Fitzalan, Emily Barclay, Annie Boyle and Rishab Kern in the story of a group of brilliant, flawed interns whose careers are on life support. Sent to the under-funded Pines Hospital in Sydney for a final chance, they must overcome their insecurities, their past and their own expectations, in a hot-house environment where the stakes are life and death. Co-created by Dan Edwards and Kelsey Munro, it is produced by Roadshow Rough Diamond and CBS Studios Production, with Paramount Global Content Distribution shopping the series outside Australia. Nicole Wallace The star of Prime Video’s biggest international originals ever, Culpa Mia and Culpa Tuya, Wallace has been announced as the lead in the streamer’s upcoming English-language Italian original series Postcards from Italy. Created by Lisa Riccardi and Damiano Bruè and directed by Jessica Yu (Only Murders in the Building, The Morning Show), it centres on Mia, a young and spoiled New York heiress who is sent by her grandfather to Palermo, without money … Continue reading DQ100 2025/26 – Part four
Adolescence, Netflix’s one-take-per-episode limited series, is the recipient of the 2025 Drama Quarterly Craft Award.
The makers of Japan-Singapore drama Lost & Found discuss the unique collaboration behind this adventure series, appealing to Gen Z and how it is rooted in the real-world phenomenon of people who choose to disappear.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
James Norton, Kitty Kaletsky and Lindsey Martin discuss making historical drama King & Conqueror, the story of the clash between Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy, the importance of authenticity and filming the series on location in Iceland.
DQ hears from All’s Fair stars Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts, Teyana Taylor, Sarah Paulson and Glenn Close about linking up with creator Ryan Murphy for this Hulu and Disney+ legal drama following a team of female divorce lawyers.
After becoming a global breakout hit in 2024, Maxton Hall – The World Between Us returns for a second season. Producers Ceylan Yildirim and Markus Brunnemann open up about the show’s success and why it’s more than a love story.
DQ checks out the upcoming schedules to pick 10 new series to watch this November, from Sarah Snook’s Succession successor and a Swedish dramedy set in Spain to a Kim Kardashian-led legal drama and the conclusion of Stranger Things.
Boston Blue stars Donnie Wahlberg and Sonequa Martin-Green discuss the origins of this Blue Bloods sequel, the dynamics of their on-screen partnership and the show’s central themes of family, faith and tradition.
