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On the Bradford beat
Virdee star Staz Nair and creator AA Dhand tell DQ about partnering for this pulsating BBC crime thriller, showcasing the writer’s home city of Bradford on screen and convincing Hans Zimmer to compose the theme tune.
Virdee on the case for BBC One
FIRST LOOK: Staz Nair is Harry Virdee, the detective at the heart of the BBC’s latest crime drama Virdee, based on the novels by AA Dhand.
Have I got muse for you
After a string of demanding projects, actor Alex Wolff and director Øystein Karlsen were looking for a change of pace. As they tell DQ, they found it in So Long, Marianne, a dramatisation of the love story between Canadian musician Leonard Cohen and the woman who became his muse, Marianne Ihlen.
BBC’s Virdee arrives in Bradford
Filming is underway on Virdee, a BBC crime thriller set in Bradford and based on AA Dhand’s novels.
King of clubs
Last King of the Cross stars Lincoln Younes and Tess Haubrich, writer/director Kieran Darcy-Smith and executive producer Mark Fennessy take DQ back to 1990s Sydney, which serves as the backdrop for this Australian crime drama about the rise of a now-infamous nightclub mogul.
Vampire Batalon
Spider-Man’s ‘Guy in the Chair’ Jacob Batalon is standing up for his first lead role in a TV series with supernatural drama Reginald the Vampire. He tells DQ about getting his teeth into the production both on screen and behind the scenes.
Crime glee
Scottish writer Irvine Welsh speaks to DQ about making his television debut with Crime, a complex police series based on his own novel, and why he doesn’t care what medium he writes for.
Marcella, meet Rebecca
Call My Agent star Anne Marivin and director Didier Le Pêcheur tell DQ about their partnership on the set of Rebecca, the French remake of British drama Marcella, in which a detective hunts a serial killer while suffering from devastating blackouts.
Making Manayek
Israeli drama Manayek won multiple awards this year for its story of a veteran cop working a police corruption case in which his best friend is the prime suspect. Writer Roy Iddan and producer Yoav Gross reveal how they made it.
Seaside noir
Scandi noir meets the English seaside in Whitstable Pearl, a murder mystery series based on Julie Wassmer’s novels. The author, series creator Øystein Karlsen and executive producer Tony Wood tell DQ about making the six-part drama.
Making a Minister
Icelandic star Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, writer Jónas Margeir Ingólfsson and director Nanna Kristin Magnúsdóttir tell DQ about The Minister, in which an unconventional politician with a hidden health condition becomes prime minister.
True romance
The search for marital bliss leads two couples along a deadly path to criminality in French-Canadian drama C’est comme ça que je t’aime (Happily Married). DQ hears about the show from stars François Létourneau and Marilyn Castonguay and director Jean-François Rivard.
Steppe change
Writing for DQ, Alexandra Modestova, director general of Russian film and television consultancy Expocontent, explains how series such as The Road to Calvary and An Ordinary Woman are leading the rise in female-led dramas in the country.