Category: IN FOCUS
Worth watching
The stories of Swedish soldiers operating during the Bosnian War are dramatised in six-part drama A Life’s Worth. Writer Mona Masri and director Ahmed Abdullahi speak to DQ about creating this suspenseful and hopeful military series that finds its characters walking the line between duty and humanity.
Arranging Reunion
BBC thriller Reunion is a story of revenge and redemption – and a bilingual series featuring spoken English and British Sign Language. Creator William Mager and star Matthew Gurney tell DQ how they made the show and how they sought to represent deaf people authentically.
Cracking Black Mirror
As Black Mirror returns, creator Charlie Brooker and exec producer Jessica Rhoades reveal the creative process behind Netflix’s mind-bending anthology while stars Emma Corrin, Sienna Kelly, Rosy McEwen, Lewis Gribben and Josh Finan offer insights into their unsettling and thought-provoking episodes.
Dying to live
Dying for Sex showrunners Kim Rosenstock and Elizabeth Meriwether join executive producer Nikki Boyer to discuss their adaptation of Boyer’s eponymous podcast, which charted her friend’s sexual adventure after learning she had terminal cancer.
Down the River
Dark secrets, fractured families and the weight of addiction – star Amanda Seyfried joins the team behind Long Bright River to delve into a book-to-screen adaptation that hits close to home.
A wing and a scare
DQ hears from the cast and creative team behind Québécois crime drama Corbeaux (Crows) about how they blended horror, the supernatural and local folklore to tell this story of two detectives on the hunt for a serial killer.
Baring her Soul
Soul Sucker creator, writer and star Bat Hen Sabag tells DQ how her own relatives inspired this Israeli horror comedy about a woman who attempts to escape a deadly family curse.
Scouse rules
Stars James Nelson-Joyce, Hannah Onslow and Jack McMullen join writer Stephen Butchard to take DQ inside the world of This City is Ours, a BBC crime drama where a delicate love story takes centre stage against a backdrop of ambition and power on the streets of Liverpool.
Matter of tax
Other People’s Money showrunner Jan Schomburg and star Nils Strunk reflect on the task of dramatising events surrounding the largest tax fraud in European history for this eight-part drama that blends ‘Shakespearean’ characters with elements of screwball comedies.
Back to life
Horror series Reencarne (Reincarnate) breaks new ground for Brazilian drama with the nightmarish story of a former cop who comes face to face with the spirit of his ex-partner. Star Welket Bungué, artistic director Bruno Safafi and writer Juan Jullian tell DQ more.
Life of a legend
Vigdís star Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir and producer Rakel Garðarsdóttir outline why they spent a decade trying to make this scripted biopic of Iceland’s first female president and reveal how they overcame the creative challenges posed by making the period drama.
Making Adolescence – part three
In the final part of our look at the making of Netflix’s Adolescence, the show’s creative team dissect the post-production process behind the one-shot drama, discuss its social message and reveal why they’d do it all again.
Taming The Leopard
It’s based on one of Italy’s greatest ever novels – so how did British creatives Richard Warlow and Tom Shankland team up to deliver lavish Italian-language drama Il Gattopardo (The Leopard)? They tell DQ about reuniting for this Netflix series set against the backdrop of revolution in 1860s Sicily.
Making Adolescence – part two
In the second part of our look at the making of Netflix one-shot drama Adolescence, the show’s creative team take DQ inside the rehearsal and filming process for the cast and crew, who had a strictly limited number of takes to achieve the production’s ambitions.
Stopping at nothing
The team behind Towards Zero, the BBC’s latest Agatha Christie adaptation, explain why this ‘sexy’ show may surprise viewers who think they know what to expect from the celebrated author’s stories.
Making Adolescence – part one
In the first part of DQ’s look at the making of Netflix one-shot drama Adolescence, director Philip Barantini, writer Jack Thorne and actors and executive producers Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters detail their early preparations and their motivations to tell this timely and topical story.
Jersey boy
Bergerac star Damien Molony joins writer Toby Whithouse, UKTV head of drama Helen Perry and executive producers Ben Bickerton and Phil Trethowan to tell DQ how they revamped the classic 1980s detective drama and why filming in Jersey was “non-negotiable.”
Undiscovered riches
Lynley screenwriter Steve Thompson and executive producer David Stern preview this upcoming BritBox and BBC crime drama, which brings Elizabeth George’s literary detective back to the screen nearly two decades since his last appearance.
Case study
Murdoch Mysteries star Yannick Bisson and executive producer Christina Jennings join DQ to celebrate 300 episodes – and counting – of the Canadian period drama, revealing why playing the title character is a “home run” and how they keep the detective series fresh after 18 seasons.
On the Bradford beat
Virdee star Staz Nair and creator AA Dhand tell DQ about partnering for this pulsating BBC crime thriller, showcasing the writer’s home city of Bradford on screen and convincing Hans Zimmer to compose the theme tune.