Category: THE WRITERS ROOM
Crossing over
Thereza Falcão and Alessandro Marson, the writers behind Elas Por Elas (Crossed Paths), reveal why they wanted to remake this 1980s telenovela for modern audiences and outline how they did it.
Love lessons
Spanish author Noemí Casquet tells DQ about watching her novel Zorras (Tramps) become a television series, the themes behind the story and her own on-screen cameo.
Killer instinct
Death in Paradise creator Robert Thorogood transports DQ to a town in Buckinghamshire for his latest crime drama, The Marlow Murder Club, which is finally hitting the small screen almost a decade after he first tried to sell the idea.
Stealing the Shōgun
Writers and executive producers Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks discuss their ambitions for Disney+ drama Shōgun, an epic tale set in 1600 Japan, and explain how they pushed for authenticity throughout the series.
Still the One
Elen Rhys and Richard Harrington play detectives and former lovers who reunite when a murderer strikes in Welsh drama Cleddau (The One That Got Away). Writer Catherine Tregenna tells DQ how she created the six-part series.
Unmasking the pandemic
Three writers, all with medical backgrounds, have come together to chart the NHS experience during the Covid-19 pandemic. Rachel Clarke, Prasanna Puwanarajah and Jed Mercurio explain why ITV’s Breathtaking might be the most important drama they will ever write.
Behind Blue Eye
Blue Eye Samurai creators Amber Noizumi and Michael Green take DQ inside the making of this striking animated series, which blends action, adventure and emotion to tell a deadly tale of revenge set in Edo-period Japan.
Find your people
Four writers – Nicole Amarteifio, Kodie Bedford, Zara Hayes and Cat Jones – discuss how they started working in television, their latest projects and why screenwriters need to find the producers who will back their ideas.
Baking Black Cake
Black Cake showrunner Marissa Jo Crear and author Charmaine Wilkerson tell DQ how they partnered to create a show that blends family drama and murder mystery with a story set over several decades and in numerous countries.
Taking the pain
Swedish writer and director Gabriela Pichler reflects on moving into television for the first time with Painkiller, which tells the story of a unique mother-and-daughter relationship, and her personal connection to the series.
Finding inspiration
DQ tracks down Finders Keepers creator and writer Dan Sefton to talk about the making of the Channel 5 series, which introduces two characters who hope their discovery of buried treasure will solve all their problems – only to find it brings them a host of new troubles.
Back in the room
As the dust settles on the US writers strike, Jeff Melvoin, Anna Winger and Suzie Miller debate the challenges and opportunities for writers and writers room models and discuss why they should be trusted to make creative decisions.
Fool’s gold
Fool Me Once marks the fifth collaboration between novelist Harlan Coben and screenwriter Danny Brocklehurst. They tell DQ about their partnership behind the Netflix series and how they try to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.
Nursing a secret
Davos 1917 head writer and creative producer Adrian Illien transports DQ to the Swiss Alps, the setting for this wartime drama about a young nurse who is drawn into a world of espionage and competing powers.
Free spirit
Italian drama Anima Gemella (Soul Sister) follows a widower searching for answers about his wife’s death with the help of a phoney medium. Writer Laura Nuti tells DQ how the series brings comedy and elements of the supernatural to the popular mystery-romance genre.
Killer copy
To keep herself in work, a writer turns killer in Irish drama Obituary. Writer Ray Lawlor takes DQ into the evolution of the show and discusses the challenges of writing a series about a serial killer.
A whole new World
The OA creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij tell DQ how they reunited for stylish murder mystery A Murder at the End of the World and discuss subverting whodunnits and making sense of the world through storytelling.
Under the Vale
Co-creator Sharon Horgan illuminates DQ on the inspiration behind horror-comedy series Shining Vale, the challenge of blending multiple genres and the importance of telling the story through a female lens.
Seeking perfection
Brazilian telenovela Amor Perfeito (Perfect Love) takes viewers into a fairytale that blends modern themes with a period setting. Writers Duca Rachid, Júlio Fischer and Elisio Lopes Jr explain how they brought the story to the screen.
Seeing Fallen through
Swedish writer Camilla Ahlgren discusses reuniting with The Bridge star Sofia Helin for Sanningen (Fallen), in which a cold-case murder investigation has wide-reaching repercussions for the inhabitants of a small town.