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Keeley Hawes, Paapa Essiedu start Falling for Channel 4
FIRST LOOK: Keeley Hawes and Paapa Essiedu have started filming Falling, a love story written by Jack Thorne (Adolescence, Help) coming soon to Channel 4.
Keeping up appearances
Just Act Normal creator and writer Janice Okoh joins executive producer George Ormond to discuss adapting for television her award-winning play about three siblings fighting to stay together after their mother’s disappearance, and the challenges of production on a limited budget.
Jersey boy
Bergerac star Damien Molony joins writer Toby Whithouse, UKTV head of drama Helen Perry and executive producers Ben Bickerton and Phil Trethowan to tell DQ how they revamped the classic 1980s detective drama and why filming in Jersey was “non-negotiable.”
Seeing the Invisible
Writer and director Nicholas Verso opens up about the making of Australian YA drama Invisible Boys and how he wanted to lean on his own experiences to tell the story of four teens coming to terms with their sexuality in a remote coastal town.
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.
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.
BBC reveals new Wolf Hall opening scenes
FIRST LOOK: Watch the opening scenes from Wolf Hall: The Mirror & The Light now ahead of the show’s debut on BBC One and BBC iPlayer this Sunday.
Getting away with it
In Welsh drama Cleddau (The One That Got Away), Elen Rhys and Richard Harrington play two detectives – and former lovers – brought back together to solve a string of murders. They talk about the love story at the centre of the series and the challenge of filming versions in English and Welsh.
History repeating
French thriller Brocéliande sees a biologist return to her former university to uncover the truth behind her friend’s disappearance, when another person goes missing in similar circumstances. Dominique Farrugia, CEO of producer Shine Fiction, tells DQ more.
BBC reunites SAS Rogue Heroes
FIRST LOOK: Jack O’Connell, Connor Swindells, Sofia Boutella and Dominic West reunite for the second season SAS Rogue Heroes, coming soon to BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
New Wives tale
The Wives creator Helen Black recalls the journey to making her first original series, explaining how the drama champions female camaraderie and why writers should “hold their nerve.”
S4C sets October launch for Cleddau
FIRST LOOK: Filming has wrapped on Cleddau, a Welsh language series starring Elen Rhys (The Mallorca Files) and Richard Harrington (Hinterland) that will debut on S4C in October.
Ska struck
In Steven Knight’s BBC drama This Town, a group of young people are drawn into the explosive new world of ska music in 1980s England. Executive producer Katie McAleese looks back on making the “unconventional” show and creating its original soundtrack.
Channel 5 starts The Feud
Jill Halfpenny and Rupert Penry-Jones will head the cast of Channel 5 domestic thriller The Feud, which is now filming on location in Newcastle. It will air in 2025.
Winds of change
Lenny Henry, creator and writer of ITV drama Three Little Birds, and star Saffron Coomber reflect on the real-life stories and experiences that inform this six-parter about three young women who leave Jamaica to start a new life in 1950s Britain.
Commanding drama
The Sixth Commandment director Saul Dibb takes DQ inside the making of the “bold and challenging” BBC four-parter, which he describes as an “anti-true crime” drama owing to its focus on the victims at the centre of the real-life story it dramatises.
Sixth sense
Telling the tale of a serial killer who manipulated and gaslit his victims, true crime series The Sixth Commandment has been hailed as one of the dramas of the year. Writer Sarah Phelps and producers Brian Woods and Derek Wax reveal how this story came to the screen.
Unmasking Anonymous
NL Film producer Dennis Cornelisse introduces DQ to Anoniem (Anonymous), a Dutch crime drama imagined as ‘Batman of the Netherlands.’
Knight on the Town
Is Steven Knight the busiest screenwriter in the business? With three dramas on air last year and several projects coming in 2023, the Peaky Blinders creator opens up about his upcoming ska music drama This Town, adapting Dickens and building his own production studio.
Thoroughly modern Marie
Juliette Ménager, casting director on Marie Antoinette, discusses building the cast of Deborah Davis’s modern retelling of the life of the woman who would be Queen of France, her big break and the secret to good casting.