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Category: DQ TV

Watch interviews with some of the world’s biggest stars, writers, directors and other key personnel as they discuss their latest projects and the craft of television drama.

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Making accusations

Accused executive producers Howard Gordon and Glenn Geller explain why this Fox anthology series is more than a courtroom drama.

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Friendly faces

Actor Damian Lewis and writer Alex Cary open up about their interest in bringing to the screen A Spy Among Friends, based on a true story of friendship and betrayal.

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Telling tales

Writer and director Balint Szentgyörgyi discusses the political and cultural influences that inspired A besúgó (The Informant), HBO’s 1980s-set Hungarian thriller about a student living a double life as a government spy.

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All according to Tran

French screenwriter Quoc Dang Tran discusses his unusual path to working in television, breaking out with horror series Marianne and adapting a Japanese manga for Drops of God.

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In League with Mark Gatiss

Actor and writer Mark Gatiss reflects on his career so far – touching on shows including The League of Gentlemen, Sherlock and Dracula – and shares his journey to making feature-length drama The Amazing Mr Blunden.

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Crime glee

Scottish writer Irvine Welsh speaks to DQ about making his television debut with Crime, a complex police series based on his own novel, and why he doesn’t care what medium he writes for.

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History maker

Vikings creator Michael Hirst opens up about his fascination with history and explains why his latest project, Billy the Kid, isn’t the western drama you might expect.

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Going Hoff script

US star David Hasselhoff and producer Siegfried Kamml discuss their partnership on Ze Network, in which the actor plays a heightened version of himself who takes a role in a conspiracy thriller he doesn’t know whether is real or imagined.

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Completing The Shift

Danish director Lone Scherfig tells DQ how she delivered medical drama Ellas Vagt (The Shift), in which Sofie Gråbøl stars as the head of a busy maternity unit.

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Dog days

Stars Josefin Asplund and Alexey Manvelov discuss the making of Swedish drama Top Dog, which centres on aspiring lawyer and an ex-con who forge an unlikely partnership.

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Making a Minister

Icelandic star Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, writer Jónas Margeir Ingólfsson and director Nanna Kristin Magnúsdóttir tell DQ about The Minister, in which an unconventional politician with a hidden health condition becomes prime minister.

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On ice

The executive producer and director of Spanish-produced Antarctic thriller The Head take DQ inside this whodunnit, set in one of the most remote places on Earth.

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Scarlet fever

Kate Phillips and Stuart Martin, the stars of Miss Scarlet & The Duke, reveal why this period series is more than a Victorian-era crime drama.

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Royal rumble

A Norwegian princess and US president build an unlikely friendship during the Second World War in eight-part drama Atlantic Crossing. Stars Sofia Helin, Kyle MacLachlan and director Alexander Eik discuss the real-life relationship at the heart of the story.

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Normal procedure

Normal People director Lenny Abrahamson and executive producer Ed Guiney discuss developing and casting the small-screen adaptation of Sally Rooney’s acclaimed novel.

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Revisiting Downton

Creator and writer Julian Fellowes and executive producer Gareth Neame look back on the origins of hit period drama Downton Abbey, discussing how it rejuvenated a genre and came to fascinate audiences around the world.

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Talking Valk

Star Marc Warren and writer Chris Murray reveal the origins of Van Der Valk, ITV’s reboot of the 1970s detective drama set in Amsterdam.

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In the Shadows

Finnish actors Emmi Parviainen and Olavi Uusivirta tell DQ about their roles in 1950s spy thriller Shadow Lines, in which Finland finds itself at the heart of the battle between East and West.

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Ego trip

Co-writer and director Marvin Kren and executive producer Moritz Polter discuss making dark Austrian drama Freud, which takes viewers inside the mind of a young Sigmund Freud.

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Blood ties

Family drama meets thriller in ITV drama Flesh & Blood. Executive producer Kate Bartlett, writer Sarah Williams and director Louise Hooper take DQ into the making of the series.

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