Québécois actor and writer Florence Longpré opens up about mental health in her latest series, Empathie (Empathy), which she created and also stars in as a psychiatrist caring for others while dealing with her own mounting depression.
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Matter of tax
Other People’s Money showrunner Jan Schomburg and star Nils Strunk reflect on the task of dramatising events surrounding the largest tax fraud in European history for this eight-part drama that blends ‘Shakespearean’ characters with elements of screwball comedies.
ITV keeps quiet with Code of Silence
FIRST LOOK: Rose Ayling-Ellis, Charlotte Ritchie and Andrew Buchan star in Code of Silence, a six-part crime thriller coming to ITV and STV this May.
Clubbing together
A retired archaeologist, a dog walker and a vicar’s wife walk into a crime scene… As The Marlow Murder Club returns for a second season, stars Samantha Bond, Jo Martin and Natalie Dew discuss making the murder-mystery series and why it’s a comfort on television.
Life of a legend
Vigdís star Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir and producer Rakel Garðarsdóttir outline why they spent a decade trying to make this scripted biopic of Iceland’s first female president and reveal how they overcame the creative challenges posed by making the period drama.
Thinking outside the box
Costume designer Maja Meschede opens up about her work bringing Victorian London to life for Disney+ period drama A Thousand Blows, which saw her partner with actors Malachi Kirby, Erin Doherty and Stephen Graham for this epic saga set in the world of illegal boxing.
Jon Hamm wants Apple TV+ to be Friends & Neighbors
TRAILER: Mad Men’s Jon Hamm stars in Apple TV+ drama Friends & Neighbors, which debuts on April 11. Watch the trailer here.
Making Adolescence – part three
In the final part of our look at the making of Netflix’s Adolescence, the show’s creative team dissect the post-production process behind the one-shot drama, discuss its social message and reveal why they’d do it all again.
Room for improv-ment
US star Denis Leary speaks to DQ about making Fox’s military sitcom Going Dutch, discusses the power of improvisation and reveals the secret to successful comedy.
Channel 4 follows its Dreamers
FIRST LOOK: Dreamers is a six-part dance school drama coming soon to Channel 4, featuring characters inspired by true stories of people from the UK city of Leeds.
ITV, BritBox reunite After the Flood
FIRST LOOK: Sophie Rundle returns to lead the cast for the second season of ITV and BritBox thriller After the Flood, which is now filming in Greater Manchester and Derbyshire.
Taming The Leopard
It’s based on one of Italy’s greatest ever novels – so how did British creatives Richard Warlow and Tom Shankland team up to deliver lavish Italian-language drama Il Gattopardo (The Leopard)? They tell DQ about reuniting for this Netflix series set against the backdrop of revolution in 1860s Sicily.
Paramount+ revisits The Ex-Wife
FIRST LOOK: Céline Buckens, Tom Mison and Jordan Stephens reunite for season two of psychological thriller The Ex-Wife, coming to Paramount+ later this year.
Behind the headlines
Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Britain, but was she judged for more than her crime? Writer Kelly Jones tells DQ how she wanted to present the “real woman” caught up in tragic events in ITV miniseries A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story.
Making Adolescence – part two
In the second part of our look at the making of Netflix one-shot drama Adolescence, the show’s creative team take DQ inside the rehearsal and filming process for the cast and crew, who had a strictly limited number of takes to achieve the production’s ambitions.
Channel 4 welcomes new Couple Next Door
FIRST LOOK: Annabel Scholey, Sam Palladio, Aggy K Adams and Sedhil Ramamurthy star in season two of Channel 4’s dark psychological drama The Couple Next Door, which features a brand new cast and story once again set in a claustrophobic cul-de-sac.
Acorn TV calls up Art Detectives
FIRST LOOK: True Blood star Stephen Moyer takes the lead in upcoming art world crime drama Art Detectives, launching in the US and Canada on Acorn TV on June 9.
Paramount+ heads to Guy Ritchie’s MobLand
TRAILER: Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan lead the cast of director Guy Ritchie’s global crime series MobLand. It will debut on Paramount+ in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia on March 30.
All write now
Writers Victoria Asare-Archer, Daf James, Georgia Lee, Sydney Sybilia and Danielle Ward reflect on making their breakout series – including shows like Daddy Issues and Missing You – and reveal how they balance their own ideas with audience tastes.
Making Adolescence – part one
In the first part of DQ’s look at the making of Netflix one-shot drama Adolescence, director Philip Barantini, writer Jack Thorne and actors and executive producers Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters detail their early preparations and their motivations to tell this timely and topical story.