Category: DQ TV
Murder in the family
Prodigal Son co-creators Chris Fedak and Sam Sklaver explain how this Fox murder mystery doubles up as a twisted family drama.
Wild side
Cristian Conti, creator of Colombian drama Wild District, talks about themes of the Netflix series and the increasing prominence of non-English-language drama.
Grilling Berger
German director Edward Berger reveals some of the secrets behind filming Deutschland 83, The Terror and Patrick Melrose, and discusses the changing role of the director.
Haus rules
As the Bauhaus art movement celebrates its centenary, DQ learns more about German drama Bauhaus: Die Neue Zeit (A New Era) from stars Anna Marie Mühe and August Diehl.
Peak performance
With season five now on air, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight discusses experimenting with the series, talking to his characters and writing without a plan.
Dangerous game
When a girl goes missing while playing a game with her father, it sets two detectives on the trail of a deadly kidnapper. Film UA’s Kateryna Vyshnevska and Olesya Lukyanenko tell DQ about Ukrainian drama Hide & Seek.
Dark thoughts
Baran bo Odar, co-creator of German supernatural drama Dark, tells DQ about the origins of the Netflix series and gives an insight into his creative process and the trouble with writers block.
Raising Lambs
Writer Sarah Lambert and director Jeffrey Walker discuss making four-part Australian drama Lambs of God, in which Essie Davis, Ann Dowd and Jessica Barden star as nuns living at an isolated monastery.
High school
Philipp Käßbohrer and Matthias Murmann reveal the backstory behind their Netflix series How to Sell Drugs Fast (Online), a teenage buddy comedy about a fledgling school drug dealer, which mixes romance with elements of a gangster thriller.
Hall of fame
US writer Karen Hall looks back on a storied career that has seen her work on series from Eight is Enough and M*A*S*H – and its celebrated finale – to groundbreaking crime drama Hill Street Blues, Moonlighting and The Good Wife.
Élite storytelling
Ahead of the return of Netflix’s Spanish young-adult thriller Élite, co-creator and writer Darío Madrona tells DQ about making the series, which follows the pupils of an exclusive school where love and rivalry lead to murder.
Perfect performance
Leticia Dolera, writer, director and star of Dejate Llevar (Perfect Life), introduces the Spanish dramedy, which won best series and the special performance prize following its premiere at Canneseries.
Chadha’s vision
Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha arrives on ITV with her first longform series, Beecham House. In this DQTV video, she explains why the period drama offers a fresh perspective of the British-Indian relationship.
Over the Years
Russell T Davies, creator and writer of Years and Years, and executive producer Nicola Shindler break down this future-gazing six-part family saga, which follows the fates and fortunes of the Lyons family through 15 tumultuous years in Britain.
Revealing Invisible Heroes
Mikael Persbrandt and Sophia Heikkilä, two of the stars of Finnish-Chilean period drama Invisible Heroes, talk about making the political thriller, which is set in Chile during General Pinochet’s military coup in 1973.
Making Les Misérables
Chris Carey, producer of the epic six-part retelling of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, opens up about working with writer Andrew Davies, recreating 19th century Paris and the physical and emotional challenges of working as a producer.
Game over
As the dust settles on the end of Game of Thrones, exec producer Frank Doelger looks back on eight seasons of the HBO epic, noting how the drama broke the mould for TV storytelling and revealing the key to successfully adapting George RR Martin’s novels.
Inquest into Coroner
Before walking the pink carpet at this year’s Canneseries, Coroner star Serinda Swan sat down with DQ to talk about the appeal of the crime drama and why she believes it’s time for Canadian creatives to come home.
Back to the Studio
Peter Van Den Begin, the star of Flemish tragicomedy Studio Tarara, and co-writer and director Tim Van Aelst discuss the making of the Canneseries official competition entry, which goes behind the scenes of a popular but chaotic 1990s sketch show.
Making Magnus
Comedy and drama meet thrills and the supernatural in Norwegian series Magnus. Writer Vidar Magnussen and director Geir Henning Hopland take time out from Canneseries to discuss the story of the worst investigator in the Norwegian police force.