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BBC brings up Babies
FIRST LOOK: Siobhán Cullen and Paapa Essiedu star in Babies, a six-part drama from the writer of Mum coming to BBC One and BBC iPlayer in 2026.
Channel 4 meets Maya
FIRST LOOK: Filming has wrapped on Maya, an upcoming Channel 4 drama starring and written by Daisy Haggard, who also makes her directing debut on the six-part series.
Spy another day
Newsreader and screenwriter Tom Bradby lifts the lid on Secret Service, ITV’s upcoming espionage thriller that stars Gemma Arterton as an MI6 officer attempting to maintain her family life while uncovering a Russian operative at the heart of the British government.
Acorn TV sets launch of Midsomer Murders S25
TRAILER: Midsumer Murders returns to Acorn TV in the US and Canada for its 25th season on December 8. Here’s the trailer.
Having a blast
Trigger Point star Nabil Elouahabi reflects on three seasons of making ITV’s tense bomb-disposal drama, hitting the show’s sweet spot and why he stands against ‘second screening.’
Making waves
Storm clouds gather for the holidaymakers living together beside a Scottish loch in Channel 4’s atmospheric thriller Summerwater. Writer John Donnelly and executive producer Mike Ellen tell DQ about adapting Sarah Moss’s novel and the importance of challenging stories.
Killing them softly
DQ meets Midsomer Murders stars Neil Dudgeon and Nick Hendrix as they film the upcoming 25th season of the beloved crime drama, discussing their on-screen partnership and why suits and scents help them get into character to play the show’s lead detective duo.
Channel 4 debuts Trespasses trailer
TRAILER: Lola Petticrew, Tom Cullen and Gillian Anderson star in Trespasses, an adaptation of Lousie Kennedy’s novel that is coming to Channel 4 in the UK in November.
Animal instincts
All Creatures Great & Small executive producer Sharon Moran details the demands of making a TV series featuring numerous farm animals, scripting on-screen births and arranging a children’s pet show.
Justice for Julie
Sheridan Smith delivers a powerful and emotive performance as Ann Ming, a mother fighting to put her daughter’s murderer behind bars, in ITV four-parter I Fought The Law. She joins the real Ming and the show’s creative team to discuss bringing this true story to the screen.
Getting ready for Ridley
As Ridley returns to ITV, creator Paul Matthew Thompson tells DQ about reuniting with Adrian Dunbar’s captivating detective, the challenge of writing compulsive murder mysteries and what it’s like swapping police drama for high-seas adventure aboard The Good Ship Murder.
Doing the dirty work
Mudtown series producer Hannah Thomas outlines how a key scene in the opening episode sets up the show’s central clash between a magistrate and a local crime boss, and reveals how its impactful courthouse bathroom setting was recreated in an old Newport factory.
Killer instincts
From developing a high-octane plot to leading their first writers room, Harry and Jack Williams share their experience of making The Assassin – and why they’re always up for a creative challenge.
Ex-plosive endings
The Ex-Wife executive producers Chiara Cardoso and Andy Morgan break down the making of season two’s final showdown – a dramatic stand-off filmed in an abandoned quarry.
Making Dreamers come true
Dreamers creator, writer and executive producer Lisa Holdsworth explains how she found the balance between drama and authenticity in this Channel 4 drama about a group of dance students.
Prime Video hunts down The Assassin
TRAILER: Keeley Hawes and Freddie Highmore star in The Assassin, a six-part action thriller that will debut on Prime Video in the UK & Ireland on Friday, July 25.
Gold minds
As The Gold returns for a second season, DQ visits the set of the factual drama to find out how the fallout from the Brink’s-Mat heist in S1 is affecting both the police and the plotters, and how writer Neil Forsyth sought to balance fact and fiction.
ITV appoints Gemma Arterton for Secret Service
FIRST LOOK: Gemma Arterton takes the lead in Secret Service, a political thriller based on Tom Bradby’s novel of the same name that is set to launch on ITV and STV in 2026.
Channel 4 takes a dip with Summerwater
FIRST LOOK: Dougray Scott, Shirley Henderson and Valene Kane have completed filming Scottish drama Summerwater, a six-part series based on the book by Sarah Moss that is coming soon to the UK’s Channel 4.
Channel 4 follows its Dreamers
FIRST LOOK: Dreamers is a six-part dance school drama coming soon to Channel 4, featuring characters inspired by true stories of people from the UK city of Leeds.