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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.
Paramount+ revisits The Ex-Wife
FIRST LOOK: Céline Buckens, Tom Mison and Jordan Stephens reunite for season two of psychological thriller The Ex-Wife, coming to Paramount+ later this year.
Keeley Hawes, Freddie Highmore face The Assassin for Prime Video
FIRST LOOK: Keeley Hawes (Miss Austen) and Freddie Highmore (The Good Doctor) star in The Assassin, a new action-packed series for Prime Video from the makers of The Tourist and Boat Story.
BBC sets The Gold standard
FIRST LOOK: Hugh Bonneville, Charlotte Spencer, Emun Elliott, Tom Cullen, Stefanie Martini and Sam Spruell reunite for the second season of factual drama The Gold, which is returning to BBC One and BBC iPlayer later this year.
ITV calls in Protection
FIRST LOOK: Siobhan Finneran (Happy Valley), Nadine Marshall (Champion) and Katherine Kelly (Mr Bates vs The Post Office) star in Protection, a new six-part thriller coming to ITV and STV this spring.
Boarders go back to school with BBC
TRAILER: BBC comedy Boarders returns for its second season on Monday, February 3, continuing the story of five talented black inner-city teens who are transported to an alien world when they gain scholarships to a prestigious boarding school.
Island life
An t-Eilean (The Island) star Sorcha Groundsell and executive producer Arabella Page Croft reflect on making the BBC Alba series – the UK’s first ever high-end Gaelic-language drama – set against the backdrop of the Western Isles of Scotland.
Off the leash
As detective drama Dalgliesh returns, star Bertie Carvel tells DQ about realising his long-held ambition to direct for the screen in the third season of the Acorn TV and Channel 5 show, which is set in 1979.
Ell raiser
Channel 5 and Acorn TV drama Ellis stars Sharon D Clarke as a top inspector who is parachuted in to solve failing investigations. Executive producer and lead writer Siân Ejiwunmi-Le Berre opens the file on television’s latest detective.
Fresh wheat
Generation Z writer-director Ben Wheatley tells DQ about the journey to make his first original television series, his unique approach to filming the six-parter and why the story is more than a zombie horror.
Black Snow S2 falls on Stan
FIRST LOOK: Travis Fimmel returns for the second season of Australian mystery drama Black Snow, which debuts on Stan on January 1, 2025.
S4C, UKTV prepare to visit Mudtown
FIRST LOOK: Erin Richards and Tom Cullen star in Mudtown (Ar y Ffin), a six-part drama centring on a Newport magistrate that is coming to Welsh language broadcaster S4C and UKTV’s Alibi.
Dead reckoning
Written by Colin Bateman, Dead & Buried tells the story of a woman who comes face to face with the man who murdered her brother. Ben McGrath, head of drama at producer Three Rivers Fiction, explains how it was brought to the screen.
ITV uncovers jewel in Joan
TRAILER: Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones) stars as notorious jewel thief Joan Hannington in ITV’s upcoming six-part drama Joan. See the trailer here.
Tick, tick, boom
Former British Army bomb-disposal expert Joel Snarr recalls working with Vicky McClure and the team behind ITV drama Trigger Point, filming scenes in a deserted London street and balancing reality with television fiction.
A cut above
Hair & make-up designer Lisa Parkinson takes DQ inside her Bafta-winning job on ITV true crime drama The Long Shadow and discusses working on a budget and being mentored by a Hairy Biker.
Sheridan Smith to lead ITV’s I Fought The Law
Sheridan Smith (The Castaways, Cleaning Up) will star in new ITV drama I Fought The Law, based on the true story of a mother’s battle to overturn the Double Jeopardy law and bring her daughter’s murderer to justice.
BBC Alba sets sail for The Island
Scottish actor Sorcha Groundsell will take the lead in Gaelic language thriller An t-Eilean (The Island), a BBC Alba series set against the backdrop of the Outer Hebrides.
Crossing Boarders
Boarders creator Daniel Lawrence Taylor, director Ethosheia Hylton and executive producer Madeleine Sinclair take DQ back to school to discuss making the BBC comedy drama, how the story is inspired by real life and working with the young cast.
Channel 5, Acorn TV investigate detective series Ellis
Sharon D Clarke (Showtrial) will take the lead in Ellis, a detective series commissioned by Channel 5 in the UK and Acorn TV.