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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

Trigger Point returns: Star Vicky McClure and writer Chris Brandon on making the most explosive season yet

IN FOCUS

Career advice: How Australian literary classic My Brilliant Career was reimagined for a new generation on Netflix

IN FOCUS

Overcoming a Bust Up: New Zealand and German producers on queer romance, buddy cops and a 10-hour time difference

IN FOCUS

Back in blue: Las Azules (Women in Blue) stars Bárbara Mori, Ximena Sariñana and director Fernando Rovzar reunite for S2 of Apple TV’s Spanish crime drama

IN FOCUS

Writer Karla Crome and director Storm Saulter serve up supernatural thrills in Sky drama Possession

IN FOCUS

Finding the truth behind Gone with David Morrissey, Richard Laxton and Matt Sandford

IN FOCUS

Inside the return of The Undeclared War with Hannah Khalique-Brown, Colin Teevan and Colin Callender

IN FOCUS

Go West: JK Simmons, Tom Brittney, Titus Welliver and Jessica Frances Dukes talk MGM+ crime drama The Westies

IN FOCUS

Into the Dark: Cast and creatives behind ITV crime series reveal the secrets of this GR Halliday adaptation

IN FOCUS

Inside Danish police academy drama Uniformen (The Uniform) with actor Soheil Bavi and executive producer Jonas Allen

IN FOCUS

Cross words: How Aldis Hodge and Ben Watkins brought James Patterson’s gifted detective to television

IN FOCUS

Still Dead: Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and showrunner Seth Hoffman on The Walking Dead: Dead City

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

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