IN FOCUS

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.

IN FOCUS

Save the date

German actor Sabin Tambrea, director Adolfo J Kolmerer and the Ziegler Film team behind Prime Video film Sebastian Fitzek’s Der Heimweg (The Calendar Killer) discuss adapting the thriller for the screen and the hidden theme behind the story.

 

STAR POWER

Truth amid tragedy

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth dramatises Jim Swire’s fight for justice following the 1988 Lockerbie disaster. Actor Sam Troughton tells DQ about making the impactful series, how it marries real events with human emotion, and his role as one of the few fictional characters on screen.

 

IN FOCUS

As the Crow Girl flies

The Crow Girl writer Milly Thomas and executive producer Tony Wood discuss their Paramount+ adaptation of this “sprawling,” dark Swedish crime novel and reveal how a celebrity fan partnered with them to bring it to the screen – Guns ‘n’ Roses guitarist Slash.

 

In production

Battle for the crown

King & Conqueror star James Norton joins fellow executive producers Kitty Kaletsky and Lindsey Martin to preview the epic historical drama, which explores the friendship and rivalry between Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy that led to the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

 

STAR POWER

Gift of the Gadd

As Richard Gadd prepares to film his next series, Half Man, he reflects on the success of his breakout hit drama Baby Reindeer and reveals how he balances the competing demands of acting in and writing his own work.

 

STAR POWER

Turkish talents

Turkish stars Can Yaman, Meryem Uzerli, Bariş Baktaş and Yağmur Yüksel open up about their latest projects – El Turco, Ru and Vendetta – and offer an insight into their approach to acting as series from Turkey continue to build global audiences.

 

IN FOCUS

Heroes’ journey

As season two of SAS Rogue Heroes shifts from North Africa to mainland Europe during the Second World War, director Stephen Woolfenden and producer Stephen Smallwood discuss making the six new episodes and reveal how they recreated the 1943 invasion of Sicily.

 

IN FOCUS

Northern stars

Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, creators and exec producers of CBC, Netflix and Aboriginal Peoples Television Network comedy North of North, chat with DQ about making the most ambitious Canadian series ever shot in the Arctic and building a brand around Inuit comedy.

 

The Writers Room

Finding the Missing pieces

The latest collaboration between Netflix and thriller author Harlan Coben, Missing You, is described as the most romantic so far. Series writer Victoria Asare-Archer tells DQ how she blended twists and turns with the story of a woman faced with meeting her ex a decade after his disappearance.

 

ON LOCATION

Nice to meet you

A pair of parents face a devastating dilemma in ITV psychological thriller Playing Nice. DQ heads to Cornwall to meet stars James Norton and James McArdle and the team behind the this adaptation of JP Delaney’s novel of the same name.

 

Fact File

Fact File: Dangerous Truth

OneGate Media CEO Tania Reichert-Facilides and Bravado chief Eric Welbers share the key details of this German political thriller inspired by true events surrounding the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

 

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