Category: IN PRODUCTION
Outback with a bang
Australian series True Colours breaks new ground as a crime drama set within a First Nations community. David Jowsey, co-MD and producer at Bunya Productions, explains how the four-parter takes viewers into a world they won’t have seen before.
Bringing Chivalry to life
Baby Cow Productions chief operating officer Asha Amster and Jax Media creative producer Isabel Richardson discuss filming Channel 4 drama Chivalry in some of LA’s most iconic shooting locations in the midst of the pandemic.
Maltese crossing
With international shoots now a regular ingredient in making television drama, producer Jan Marnell tells DQ how Swedish drama Fartblinda (Blinded) moved to Malta for its second season.
Mystery unravelled
Mystery Road: Origin will take viewers deep into the Australian outback to tell the origin story of Detective Jay Swan. Producer Greer Simpkin tells DQ about filming in some of the most remote locations on Earth.
Singing Sisters
Producer Elizabeth Arnac looks back at the making of French musical drama Reusss (Sisters), the story of three friends who turn detectives after a brutal attack.
Keeping it Natural
Arquipélago Filmes’ Edgar Medina outlines the producer’s courtroom noir Causa Própria (Natural Law), revealing how he secured star Margarida Vila-Nova for the lead role and how to stay creative on a modest budget.
Going Rogue
Martin Haines, executive producer of upcoming BBC series SAS: Rogue Heroes, tells DQ about linking up with Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight for this story about the birth of the special forces unit.
Discovering Diamonds
Pieter Van Huyck, head of scripted at Belgian producer De Mensen, outlines how the company developed family crime drama Diamonds, which is set in Antwerp’s diamond district, with support from partners in Israel.
Girl power
The Girl Before star Gugu Mbatha-Raw and executive producer Eleanor Moran take DQ inside the making of this psychological thriller and reveal how the actor helped to cast the miniseries in her first producer role.
Hearing Blanca
Lux Vide CEO and producer Luca Bernabei reveals how the use of innovative sound technology was used to bring to life the world of Blanca, the blind central character in the Italian crime drama of the same name.
Net result
The Net, a series of four interconnected stories that unfold in different countries and in different languages, is set to take viewers inside the world of football corruption. DQ finds out more.
Hair we go
As filming continues on Danish period drama Carmen Curlers, writer Mette Heeno and producer Stinna Lassen tell DQ how the invention of the electric hair curler changed the fortunes of one man and thousands of women, as the series shows.
Blast from the past
4400 executive producers Ariana Jackson and Sunil Nayar reveal how they reimagined the science-fiction premise behind a noughties drama that imagines what would happen if thousands of missing people suddenly reappeared.
Gangster in waiting
After three years in the can, Australian Gangster has finally aired. Producer Dan Edwards tells DQ about the true story that inspired the intense crime drama, filming in Sydney and finding the miniseries’ star.
Eye of the storm
Vox Pictures producer Adrian Bate and director Pip Broughton tell DQ how they blended conspiracy thriller and relationship drama in The Trick, a single film that dramatises the fallout from the 2009 Climategate affair.
Viva CSI: Vegas
Six years after long-running crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ended, executive producers Jason Tracey and Anthony Zuiker tell DQ why they have resurrected the series under new banner CSI: Vegas.
Aloha state of mind
Executive producers Matt Bosack, Jan Nash and Christopher Silber lift the lid on the newest instalment of the NCIS franchise, NCIS: Hawai’i, which features the brand’s first female lead.
TV to remember
In Treatment meets Mindhunter in German drama 8 Zeugen (The Witnesses), in which a memory scientist questions eight people over the kidnapping of a young girl. Producers Christian Rohde and Viktoria Barkhausen explain more.
Friends reunited
Writer Giula Sandler and producers Angie Fielder and Jessica Carrera tell DQ all about adapting Sally Piper’s novel The Geography of Friendship for television, with Rose Byrne set to lead the cast.
Baby boom
Martichka Bozhilova, a producer from Bulgaria’s Agitprop, discusses the development process behind the company’s next drama, Babyland, which centres on a luxury hotel that doubles as a surrogacy clinic.