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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

Breaking free: The Paz Brothers and Ariel Cohen on partnering for eight-part cult drama The Escape

IN FOCUS

Jimmy McGovern does more Time in the third season of his prison drama anthology

IN FOCUS

On set in Glasgow with Careless star Solly McLeod, executive producer Claire Mundell and director Stevie Cruz-Martin

IN FOCUS

House of Yang: Stefanie Ren opens the door to her Black Forest horror mystery

IN FOCUS

Declaring War: Inside Sky and HBO’s high-stakes legal drama turning divorce into a battleground

IN FOCUS

Honouring Breitscheidplatz 19/12: How a new series dramatises the events that led to one of Germany’s worst terror attacks

IN FOCUS

The Split Up: Inside the making of the BBC’s new legal drama set in the world of Abi Morgan’s The Split

IN FOCUS

Call My Agent! The Movie: Writer Fanny Herrero and producer Aurélien Larger on dialling up the chaos

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

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