Category: FACT FILE
A brush with murder
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.
Fact file: In Light of Darkness
British screenwriter Steven Farrell-Kelly introduces In Light of Darkness, a horror-soaked psychological thriller series with a supernatural twist he is currently developing with Sydney-based Escapade Media.
Blame the parents
Adorable Media’s Richelle Wilder breaks down The Trial, 5’s thought-provoking single drama set in a world where parents are directly legally accountable for their children’s actions, and reveals how it was produced in just four days.
Fact File: Cold Haven
Andri Ómarsson from Icelandic production company Glassriver and Pedro Lopes from Portugal’s SPI discuss six key locations from this crime thriller, which unfolds across both countries.
Fact File: Dangerous Truth
OneGate Media CEO Tania Reichert-Facilides and Bravado chief Eric Welbers share the key details of this German political thriller inspired by true events surrounding the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Fact File: Borderline
Borderline executive producers Larry Bass and Steve November join series producer Mary Callery to tell DQ about this character drama about two mismatched detectives, set on the Irish border.
Deeper underground
Subterranea creator Brian Munene introduces DQ to this groundbreaking Showmax sci-fi series and explains why the story will resonate beyond its Kenyan setting.
Fact File: Song of the Sun God
Karen Radzyner, executive producer and head of development at Sydney’s Photoplay Films, tells DQ about upcoming drama Song of the Sun God, which is being adapted from Shankari Chandran’s novel of the same name.
Fact File: The Brokenwood Mysteries
Ahead of the 10th season of The Brokenwood Mysteries, creator and showrunner Tim Balme tells DQ six things we should know about the New Zealand-set detective drama.
Fact File: Baltic Crimes
Tania Reichert-Facilides, MD of OneGate Media, reveals six crucial details about Der Usedom Krimi (Baltic Crimes), a long-running crime series that centres on the relationship between mother-and-daughter investigators as a murder threatens to tear them apart.
Fact File: The Effects of Lying
Director Isher Sahota tells DQ six things we should know about The Effects of Lying, a feature-length ITVX show that follows a dutiful father and husband through a series of shocking events taking place across just one day.
Parental guidance
As Breeders returns for a third season, co-creator and showrunner Simon Blackwell reveals six things we need to know about this parenting comedy, which stars Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard.
Fact File: Blood Sisters
Heidi Uys, creative producer of Netflix drama Blood Sisters, tells DQ six things you need to know about this Nigerian drama, which explores themes of family relationships, friendships and physical and substance abuse.
Fact File: Kiss Me First
Melanie Stokes, from Kindle Entertainment, and Balloon Entertainment’s Bryan Elsley offer six points of interest about Kiss Me First, a drama series set in both the real and virtual-reality worlds coming to Channel 4 in the UK and Netflix.
Talking Liberty
Piv Bernth, the former head of drama at Danish pubcaster DR, and producer Karoline Leth reveal six things we need to know about forthcoming drama Liberty, about a young boy who moves to Tanzania with his parents. The series is produced in-house by DR and is distributed by DR International Sales.
Fact File: Monster
Norwegian drama Monster takes the hunt for a serial killer to the northernmost part of the country. Producer Lasse Greve Alsos tells DQ six things we need to know about the show, which is produced by broadcaster NRK and distributed by DRG.
Fact File: Iskander
A rookie cop is transferred to French Guiana where she must team up with a local detective to solve the brutal murder of a couple and the kidnapping of their son in four-part drama Maroni (Iskander). Mademoiselle Films producer Aurélie Meimon tells DQ six things we need to know about French miniseries.
Spanish inquisition
The disappearance of a loved one tears a family apart in Spanish thriller Sé quién eres (I Know Who You Are). Director and executive producer Pau Freixas tells DQ six things we need to know about the series.
The Swell
Dutch drama Als de Dijken Breken (The Swell) imagines what happens when the most powerful storm in history hits the Netherlands and Belgium. JOCO Media producer Ingmar Menning wades through the six-part series to give DQ six things we should know about this epic drama.
Black Lake
Producer Emma Nyberg, with the help of writer Ulf Kvensler, offers six things you need to know about Swedish horror thriller Svartsjön (Black Lake).