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Category: IN FOCUS

DQ explores scripted dramas and their journey from pitch to production, speaking to showrunners, writers, directors and stars about how the show came to life.

IN FOCUS

Make That Movie: Director Joe Pelling and producer William Kay on Sam Campbell’s Channel 4 comedy

IN FOCUS

Boho creator Abbie Boutkabout, director Olympia Allaert and producer Helen Perquy on Belgium’s feelgood Canneseries winner

IN FOCUS

Finding The Flaws: Bastian Reiber and Arne Feldhusen on making satirical, absurdist German comedy Das Manko

IN FOCUS

The Best Immigrant stars Jennifer Heylen and Farouk Ben Ali discuss the making of this dystopian political drama

IN FOCUS

Reading The Testaments with star Mattea Conforti, director Mike Barker and costume designer Leslie Kavanagh

IN FOCUS

Dear England: James Graham and Rupert Goold on taking the Gareth Southgate football drama from stage to screen

IN FOCUS

Making Monyová: how the biopic of a bestselling Czech author shines a light on domestic abuse and violent relationships

IN FOCUS

Rivals returns: stars Alex Hassell, Bella Maclean, Emily Atack, Nafessa Williams, Rufus Jones and Luca Pasqualino on S2 of the Disney+ drama

IN FOCUS

Number One Fan: star Sally Lindsay and director Paul Wilmshurst on 5’s psychological thriller

IN FOCUS

Burden of Justice writer Frans Milisic Wiklund and director Lisa Linnertorp put morals and ethics at the heart of this Swedish legal drama

IN FOCUS

The Cage stars Barry Sloane, Geraldine James and writer Tony Schumacher unlock this BBC casino drama

IN FOCUS

Secret Service: How Tom Bradby partnered with Potboiler Productions’ Gail Egan and Andrea Calderwood on ITV espionage thriller

IN FOCUS

Keeping up with Jones: Inside this Agatha Christie-inspired Portuguese whodunnit with creator Bruno Gascon and star Rafael Morais

IN FOCUS

Baby Reindeer’s Richard Gadd on following up the Netflix sensation with new drama Half Man for the BBC and HBO

IN FOCUS

Dialling into Ethernel – the new Belgian series in which the living can call the dead

IN FOCUS

The road to Portobello: Fabrizio Gifuni and Marco Bellocchio tell the true story behind HBO Max’s Italian crime drama

IN FOCUS

A Hole new world: Inside Netflix crime series Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole

IN FOCUS

Russell T Davies and Nicola Shindler on their enduring partnership and new project Tip Toe

IN FOCUS

Paapa Essiedu and Siobhán Cullen discuss making Babies with Stefan Golaszewski

IN FOCUS

Go inside The Glass House with the creative team behind this 90s-set comedy

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