Articles about BBC Studios
Fit for the Mitfords
Production designer Matthew Button and costume designer Claire Collins take DQ into the world of Outrageous, UKTV and BritBox’s period biopic of the real-life Mitford sisters, and reveal how they recreated British high society of the 1930s.
Totally Outrageous
Executive producer Elizabeth Kilgarriff and writer Sarah Williams reflect on Outrageous, a six-part series that dramatises the lives of the aristocratic Mitford sisters in 1930s Britain, revealing why the title perfectly describes both its protagonists and the way their story is told.
AI Agatha
Agatha Christie has been resurrected using AI to lead a BBC Maestro course that aims to share the Queen of Crime’s writing secrets with budding authors – but it could also be a watershed moment for the use of technology in television production.
BBC tames Wild Cherry
FIRST LOOK: Mood creator Nicôle Lecky returns to the BBC with Wild Cherry, a new drama in which she stars alongside Eve Best, Carmen Ejogo, Imogen Faires and newcomer Amelia May. It is currently in production.
BBC arranges Reunion
FIRST LOOK: Matthew Gurney, Lara Peake, Anne-Marie Duff, Eddie Marsan and Rose Ayling-Ellis star in Reunion, a four-part bilingual thriller coming soon to the BBC that was filmed in both British Sign Language and spoken English.
Channel 4 introduces Brian & Maggie
TRAILER: Steve Coogan and Harriet Walter are Brian & Maggie in the upcoming Channel 4 drama about Brian Walden’s final TV interview with British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
BBC books Barcelona break with The Split
TRAILER: Take a trip with The Split: Barcelona, the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the BBC One series, which will launch on December 29.
Channel 4 wants more Change
FIRST LOOK: Bridget Christie’s comedy The Change returns to Channel 4 for a second season in 2025.
BBC confirm Return to Paradise
TRAILER: Anna Samson heads the cast of Return to Paradise, the Australian spin-off from murder-mystery series Death in Paradise. The series debuts in the UK on November 22 after its debut down under earlier this year.
Don Gilet finds Death in Paradise
FIRST LOOK: Sherwood and EastEnders star Don Gilet takes the lead in Death in Paradise, and will make his debut in a feature-length Christmas special later this year.
BBC preps Call the Midwife Xmas double
FIRST LOOK: Call the Midwife will return to the BBC this Christmas with, for the first time, a two-part festive story.
Life imitating art
DQ heads to Cardiff to meet the cast and crew behind BBC comedy-drama Death Valley, in which a former TV detective utilises his investigative skills in the real world when he strikes a partnership with an actual detective.
Split decisions
Two years after The Split concluded, the BBC legal drama is returning for a two-part special set in Spain. Star Nicola Walker, creator Abi Morgan and executive producer Jane Featherstone tell DQ why they wanted to reunite for The Split: Barcelona.
The Split to reappear on BBC One
FIRST LOOK: Legal drama The Split returns to the BBC for a two-part special titled The Split: Barcelona, picking up the story two years after the series originally ended in 2022.
Not out of the woods yet
Director Clio Barnard joins executive producers Juliette Howell and Harriet Spencer to look back on making the second season of BBC drama Sherwood, building on the themes of season one and finding the delicate balance of character and issues in a state-of-the-nation series.
Right of reply
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story recounts the true story of the eponymous model’s kidnap ordeal in 2017 and the subsequent media storm when she was accused of faking the whole thing. Writer Georgia Lester, star Nadia Parkes and Ayling herself recount the making of this factual drama.
Guiding light
While Poppy Cogan was busy adapting Holly Jackson novel A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder for television, the book became a worldwide sensation. She explains how she brought this mystery drama to the screen and reflects on her own journey to creating her first TV series.
BBC heads back to Sherwood
FIRST LOOK: David Morrissey, Monica Dolan, David Harewood, Lorraine Ashbourne and Robert Lindsay star in season two of BBC drama Sherwood, continuing James Graham’s series about community and modern-day Britain.
BBC looks up A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
TRAILER: Here’s the trailer for A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, a six-part series based on Holly Jackson’s novel of the same name. It debuts in the UK on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer in July.
Ghosts set to haunt Germany
FIRST LOOK: A German adaptation of British comedy Ghosts is now being filmed in Cologne.