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Channel 4 hires Sam Campbell to Make That Movie
FIRST LOOK: Taskmaster and Last One Laughing star Sam Campbell takes the lead in comedy series Make That Movie, which comes to Channel 4 in the UK this May.
Studio N CEO Mikyung Kwon on bringing Korean webcomics to TV with shows like The Legend of Kitchen Soldier
Following the world premiere of The Legend of Kitchen Soldier, Studio N CEO Mikyung (Michelle) Kwon speaks to DQ about making the Korean series, its origins as a webcomic and how this source of IP is fuelling a wave of new projects.
BBC unveils Mint trailer for Charlotte Regan’s romance crime drama
TRAILER: Emma Laird and Ben Coyle-Larner head the cast of romance-filled crime drama Mint, the first TV series from filmmaker Charlotte Regan, which arrives on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Monday, April 20, 2026. Watch the trailer now.
Laird plays Shannon, the daughter of her area’s dominant crime family, who is desperately searching for romance in the shadow of her father, Dylan.
When Shannon falls hard for Arran (Coyle-Larner), a member of a rival crime family who has newly arrived in town, their love story changes both of their lives for good, but not everyone in their lives sees it the same way.
While Shannon and Arran are navigating their forbidden romance, elsewhere things are imploding for Shannon’s family – her parents, Dylan and Cat, her older brother Luke and her indomitable grandma Ollie. When Dylan decides to step down as the head of the family for mysterious reasons. Sam, Dylan’s second in command, steps up to take over, though his diverging tactics start to raise alarm.
Filmed in and around Glasgow last year, Mint also stars Sam Riley, Laura Fraser, Lewis Gribben, Connor Newall and Lindsay Duncan.
The eight-part series is created, written, directed and executive produced by Regan (Scrapper). It is made for BBC iPlayer and BBC One by House Productions and Fearless Minds. It is produced by Angus Lamont and executive produced by Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Theo Barrowclough for House Productions, Jolyon Symonds for Fearless Minds and Rebecca Ferguson for the BBC. Mint was supported by Screen Scotland.
BBC Studios is handling global sales.
All episodes of Mint are on BBC iPlayer from 6am on Monday, April 20, with the series airing on BBC One from 9pm that night.
tagged in: BBC iPlayer, BBC One, BBC Studios, Charlotte Regan, Fearless Minds, House Productions, Mint
Stars Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West spill the tea on Big Mood as Channel 4 comedy returns for second season
As Channel 4 comedy Big Mood returns for a second season, stars Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West discuss continuing this story of female friendship and mental health, stepping up as executive producers and the need for their characters to have an “honest conversation.”
Producer Ivar Køhn explains how Norwegian medical drama Still Breathing blends fiction and authenticity
Ahead of the launch of Norwegian medical drama LIS (Still Breathing), DQ speaks to producer Ivar Køhn about making a show that blends fictional drama with real-world issues, building a hospital and why it is set to fill a hole in TV schedules.
Netflix finds Legends in new Neil Forsyth drama starring Tom Burke and Steve Coogan
FIRST LOOK: Tom Burke and Steve Coogan star in Legends, a series from the creator of The Gold and Guilt coming to Netflix on May 7, 2026.
Inspired by one of the most remarkable criminal investigations ever conducted, the six-episode series follows a group of ordinary Customs employees sent undercover to infiltrate some of the country’s most dangerous criminal networks, and stop the heroin crisis threatening Britain in the early 1990s.
Their ‘legends’ were brand new identities, created by the amateur operatives to protect themselves and their families at home, as they entered into a new world of unimaginable risks, and unprecedented adventure.
Burke plays Guy and Coogan is Don, with Hayley Squires as Kate, Tom Hughes as Carter, Aml Ameen as Bailey, Jasmine Blackborrow as Erin, Douglas Hodge as Blake and Johnny Harris as Eddie.
The cast also includes Gerald Kyd, Numan Acar, Charlotte Ritchie, Joshua Samuels, Kem Hassan and Thomas Coombes.
Produced by Tannadice Pictures, Legends is created and written by Neil Forsyth. The directors are Brady Hood and Julian Holmes.
The executive producers are Ben Farrell & Neil Forsyth for Tannadice, and Richard Bradley for Lion Television. The series producer is Charlie Leech.
tagged in: Legends, Neil Forsyth, Netflix, Steve Coogan, Tannadice Pictures, Tom Burke
Shameless pride: How Goldie Behl transformed the UK dramedy for Indian audiences as Itti Si Khushi
Indian filmmaker Goldie Behl tells DQ how he has adapted British comedy-drama Shameless for Indian audiences, why he didn’t want to just copy the original and how he ensured it felt as authentic as possible.
Tahar Rahim and Izuka Hoyle on the run in first trailer for Sky drama Prisoner
TRAILER: Tahar Rahim and Izuka Hoyle are forced on the run in Prisoner, a new Sky original series created by Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies) and debuting on Sky Atlantic and NOW on April 30.
Prisoner follows Amber (Hoyle), a principled young prison transport officer tasked with escorting Tibor (Rahim), a trained killer and high-value inmate, to court to testify against his elite crime syndicate. When their convoy is brutally ambushed, she’s forced to put her life in his hands. As the sole survivors, handcuffed and on the run, they must race to reach their destination alive and on time.
Along the way, their uneasy alliance is tested as the syndicate closes in. Trust becomes a weapon and their shackled survival a moral dilemma, forcing Amber to confront how far she’ll go to protect what matters most.
The supporting cast includes Eddie Marsan, Catherine McCormack, Leonie Benesch, Finn Bennett, Sam Troughton, Laurie Davidson, Ken Nwosu, Brían F O’Byrne and Youssef Kerkour.
Created and written by showrunner Charman and directed by Otto Bathurst (Peaky Blinders), Prisoner is produced by Binocular in association with Sky Studios. Haleema Mizra is deputy showrunner and writer, with later episodes directed by Pia Strietmann.
Executive producers are Charman, Foz Allan, Bathurst and Adrian Sturges for Sky Studios. Barney Reisz is series producer. The series will be available on Sky in the UK and Ireland, with NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution handling international sales.
All episodes of Prisoner will be available on April 30 on Sky Atlantic and NOW.
tagged in: Binocular, Izuka Hoyle, Matt Charman, NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution, Otto Bathurst, Prisoner, Sky Studios, Tahar Rahim
BBC, HBO debut Half Man trailer starring Richard Gadd and Jamie Bell
TRAILER: Richard Gadd and Jamie Bell head the cast of Half Man, the new six-part BBC and HBO drama debuting around the world later this month. Watch the trailer now.
Jamie Bell takes the lead in BBC, Netflix’s new Peaky Blinders series
FIRST LOOK: Here’s Jamie Bell in character as Duke Shelby, who leads the new Peaky Blinders series coming soon to the BBC and Netflix.
Already commissioned for two seasons, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is set to introduce the next generation of the Shelby family in a show set in the 1950s. Bell plays Duke Shelby in a story set 10 years after the events of recent feature film sequel Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.
A decade after World War Two, the race to rebuild Birmingham becomes a brutal contest of mythical dimensions. This is a city of unprecedented opportunity and jeopardy. At its blood-soaked heart is Duke Shelby (Bell): older, wiser, more ambitious, and most certainly more dangerous.
The cast will also include Charlie Heaton, Jessica Brown Findlay, Lashana Lynch and Lucy Karczewski.
Produced by Kudos (SAS Rogue Heroes, House of Guinness) and Garrison Drama (Peaky Blinders) for the BBC and Netflix, the new series is being filmed in and around Digbeth Loc Studios in Birmingham.
The new series will premiere on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the UK and on Netflix globally.
Production is supported by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) and is the first commission following the new BBC partnership agreement with the WMCA and Create Central to expand BBC and partner production investment in the West Midlands.
tagged in: BBC iPlayer, BBC One, Jamie Bell, Netflix, Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight
A Hole new world: Inside Netflix crime series Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole
The stars of Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole – Tobias Santelmann, Joel Kinnaman and Ellen Helinder – join author-turned-screenwriter Jo Nesbø to discuss the making of Netflix’s Oslo-set drama, which brings iconic detective Harry Hole to the small screen for the first time.
Hugo Blick visits California Avenue for latest BBC drama
Ahead of the launch of his latest BBC drama, California Avenue, writer and director Hugo Blick discusses the making of this particularly personal project about a family.
Russell T Davies and Nicola Shindler on their enduring partnership and new project Tip Toe
Russell T Davies and Nicola Shindler shine a light on the writer-producer partnership behind Queer as Folk, Years & Years and It’s a Sin – and preview their latest collaboration, Channel 4’s upcoming drama Tip Toe.
Nicola Coughlan, Lydia West back for more Big Mood on Channel 4
TRAILER: Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West return for the second season of Channel 4 comedy Big Mood, which will launch on April 16. Watch the trailer now.
It’s been a year since Maggie (Coughlan) and Eddie (West) last saw each other, without any contact between the best friends. When Eddie suddenly returns for a wedding, she isn’t alone – Maggie has competition, in the form of an infuriatingly positive spiritual healer named Whitney. Can Maggie and her special brand of chaos find space in Eddie’s new life? Or will Maggie lose Eddie forever?
Robert Gilbert, Eamon Farren, Niamh Cusack, Amalia Vitale, Luke Fetherston, Rebecca Lowman, Stephen Sobal and Kate Fleetwood all reprise their roles from S1, with new faces including Hannah Onslow as Whitney, Rupert Everett, Robert Lindsay, Marina Bye, Marcus Collins, Munroe Bergdorf, Kyran Thrax, Lois Chimimba, Kelly Campbell, Leo Wan, Zachary Hart and John Locke.
Big Mood is written and created by Camilla Whitehill and directed by Rebecca Asher. Lotte Beasley Mestriner executive produce along with Laurence Bowen and Chris Carey for Dancing Ledge Productions. Camilla Whitehill, Rebecca Asher, Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West also executive produce. Nadia Jaynes is producer. It is produced by Dancing Ledge Productions for Channel 4, in coproduction with Tubi.
Fremantle is handling global sales for the series.
tagged in: Big Mood, Camilla Whitehill, Channel 4, Dancing Ledge Productions, Fremantle, Lydia West, Nicola Coughlan, Tubi
Behind the Eyes: On location at Mont-Saint-Michel with the Cat’s Eyes cast and crew
On a nighttime shoot at the iconic Mont-Saint-Michel, DQ joins the cast and crew of Cat’s Eyes to watch filming of the final scenes of season two and find out how this action-heist drama is raising the stakes with new characters, new crimes and more famous locations.
Disney+ introduces Alice and Steve for summer 2026 launch
FIRST LOOK: Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement head the cast of comedy-drama Alice and Steve, a “messy and complicated exploration of friendship, family and love” coming to Disney+ this summer.
Walker plays Alice, who is devastated when her best friend Steve (Clement) starts dating her 26-year-old daughter Izzy (Yali Topol Margalith). She’s going to lose her best friend and her daughter in one fell swoop. Alice tries everything she can to end the relationship. Unfortunately for her, Steve’s more than ready for the attack, and what begins as a perfect friendship, devolves into an all-out feud.
Described as an anti-romantic comedy that asks how far would you go for love, or revenge, it also stars Joel Fry as Alice’s husband Daniel. Tyrese Eaton-Dyce, Marcia Warren, Eilidh Fisher and Ebony Aboagye also star in the ensemble cast.
The six-parter is created and written by Sophie Goodhart and directed by Tom Kingsley. Petra Fried, Andy Baker and Wim De Greef executive produce for Clerkenwell Films and the series is produced by Fran du Pille.
It will debut on Disney+ this summer, following its world premiere in April at French television festival Canneseries 2026.
tagged in: Alice and Steve, Clerkenwell Films, Disney, Jemaine Clement, Nicola Walker, Sophie Goodhart, Yali Topol Margalith
Paapa Essiedu and Siobhán Cullen discuss making Babies with Stefan Golaszewski
Babies stars Paapa Essiedu, Siobhán Cullen, Jack Bannon and Charlotte Riley join writer-director Stefan Golaszewski to take DQ inside this dramatic, funny and heartfelt drama about a couple struggling to become parents – and reveal why it’s actually a love story.
Go inside The Glass House with the creative team behind this 90s-set comedy
Vitrerie Joyal (The Glass House) stars comedian Martin Matte as a fictional version of his own father in a story set in 1990s Québec. He joins director Guillaume Lonergan, producer Louis Bolduc and Prime Video’s Brent Haynes to tell DQ about this “autofictional” comedy.
ABC books another Return to Paradise with Anna Samson
FIRST LOOK: Filming is underway on the third season of Australian crime drama Return to Paradise, with Anna Samson returning in the lead role of DS Mackenzie Clarke.
In this third outing, Mackenzie is back, fresh from having wrecked another of Glenn (Tai Hara)’s weddings and determined never to follow her heart again.
But ignoring her heart won’t be easy. The arrival of her force-of-nature mother Jillian (Kerry Armstrong) puts Mack’s mettle to the ultimate test and there’s something undeniable about the raffish charm of the new pathologist Leo (Jacob Collins). And as for Glenn, who has gone away to ‘find himself’, well that’s a whole other puzzle for Mack to try and solve …
And while Dolphin Cove may still look like paradise, it continues to serve up a steady stream of baffling murder mysteries – from the artist stabbed in full view of the public, to the wildlife worker dead in a locked cassowary cage. Mack will solve it all with her usual brilliance, and the off-beat help of her loyal team.
The returning cast also includes Lloyd Griffith as Colin Cartwright, Catherine McClements as Philomena Strong, Celia Ireland as Reggie Rocco and Aaron McGrath as Felix Wilkinson.
Guest actors in S3 Mark Lee, Tina Bursill, Ngali Shaw, Anthony Hayes, Zöe Ventura (Packed to the Rafters, Time Bandits), Zindzi Okenyo (Troppo, Critical Incident) and Matt Day (Rake, The Unusual Suspects).
The Australian spin-off to murder mystery Death in Paradise, the six-part whodunnit is produced by BBC Studios Australia Productions, in partnership with Red Planet Pictures for the ABC, and in association with the BBC, which airs the series in the UK.
Return to Paradise will air on ABC TV and ABC iview later this year and will be shown on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK. It will be distributed globally by BBC Studios.
tagged in: ABC, Anna Samson, BBC iPlayer, BBC One, BBC Studios Australia Productions, Red Planet Pictures, Return to Paradise