Articles about Bad Wolf
Cooped up
Jing Lusi and Martin Compston tell DQ about partnering for the second season of ITV thriller Red Eye, bonding over cups of tea and raising the stakes of a series built on conspiracy and claustrophobia.
Jing Lusi, Martin Compston board new season of ITV’s Red Eye
FIRST LOOK: Jing Lusi and Martin Compston are teaming up for season two of ITV thriller Red Eye, which is currently in production.
Trading in rough diamonds
Investing in start-up potential is risky, but Bad Wolf’s Jane Tranter helped Industry duo Mickey Down and Konrad Kay become valuable market assets. They recall their journey together and talk about why TV should be backing new talent.
Into the Whoniverse
VFX creatives Will Cohen and Seb Barker share the secrets behind realising dramatic stunts and otherworldly creatures in the recent Doctor Who specials that heralded the arrival of Ncuti Gatwa’s 15th Doctor.
Dark waters
First-time showrunner Alma Har’el joins executive producers Julie Gardner and Nathan Ross to tell the story of adapting Laura Lippman novel Lady in the Lake for Apple TV+.
Regeneration game
Doctor Who marks the latest stage of a varied career on and off-screen for actor Michelle Greenidge. She speaks to DQ about taking risks to land her dream job and working alongside Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson on the BBC’s flagship sci-fi series.
BBC, HBO build more Industry
FIRST LOOK: Game of Thrones star Kit Harington joins Industry, as the BBC and HBO release these first look images of the drama’s upcoming third season.
Dope Girls head to BBC One
FIRST LOOK: Julianne Nicholson and Eliza Scanlen travel back to 1918 Soho for Dope Girls, a BBC series set in the world of illicit underground nightclubs.
Red alert
Red Eye star Jing Lusi and writer Peter A Dowling reflect on the “groundbreaking” approach to casting the ITV thriller, in which a British-Chinese police officer finds herself stuck in the middle of a deadly conspiracy on a flight from London to Beijing.
Eye of the storm
Writer Peter A Dowling and executive producers Julie Gardner and Lachlan MacKinnon take DQ aboard ITV’s upcoming thriller Red Eye to discuss making this locked-room mystery, filming on a plane and the importance of authentic representation.
Green thinking
As television drama goes green on-screen and behind the camera, four executives reveal how they are helping to create sustainable productions and reduce their carbon footprint.
Winter (King) is coming
As epic Arthurian drama The Winter King nears completion, executive producers Julie Gardner and Lachlan MacKinnon tell DQ about adapting Bernard Cornwell’s Warlord Chronicles for television, playing with magic and being inspired by The West Wing.
Stuck on Suzie
While working on the latest season of Succession, writer Lucy Prebble found time to reunite with best friend Billie Piper for I Hate Suzie Too, a sequel to the 2020 drama. She tells DQ about showrunning, truthful writing and the demands of creating a fictional dance competition.
Love Hate
Succession writer and award-winning playwright Lucy Prebble tells DQ about reuniting with best friend and actor Billie Piper for Sky’s provocative and stylistically ambitious eight-part drama I Hate Suzie.
Materials world
Based on Philip Pullman’s acclaimed novels, HBO and BBC drama His Dark Materials aims to set a new benchmark for fantasy series. The cast and writer Jack Thorne reveal their approach to writing and filming the adaptation.
Into the darkness
Witches, vampires and daemons battle for power in A Discovery of Witches, a supernatural fantasy drama based on Deborah Harkness’s bestselling All Souls novels. DQ visits the Cardiff set to meet stars Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode and executive producer Jane Tranter.
Inside the Wolf’s lair
Home to British dramas A Discovery of Witches and His Dark Materials, Wolf Studios Wales offers more than 250,000 square feet of studio space for high-end series just minutes from Cardiff. DQ takes a tour with Bad Wolf CEO Jane Tranter.
Whose Dark Materials?
The BBC’s decision to adapt Philip Pullman’s classic trilogy His Dark Materials for TV means there is now a top screenwriting job up for grabs. Andy Fry looks at some of the potential candidates for this complex and challenging brief.