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Articles about Disney

DISNEY

Cutting through

Doctor Who writer Inua Ellams gives DQ the inside track on penning The Story & The Engine, his first episode of the iconic sci-fi franchise, and discusses staging a story set in a single location and the craft work involved in building a puzzling denouement for the Doctor.  

DISNEY

The Mothma prophecies

What is it that separates Andor from other Star Wars series, and why has playing Mon Mothma for 20 years meant so much to Genevieve O’Reilly? The actor tells DQ about making the Disney+ thriller, its bold storytelling choices and portraying a character who would become a Rebel leader.  

DISNEY

Disney+ sets launch for Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes

TRAILER: Edison Alcaide, Conleth Hill, Max Beesley and Emily Mortimer lead the cast of factual drama Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a four-part series launching on Disney+ on April 30.

DISNEY

Dying to live

Dying for Sex showrunners Kim Rosenstock and Elizabeth Meriwether join executive producer Nikki Boyer to discuss their adaptation of Boyer’s eponymous podcast, which charted her friend’s sexual adventure after learning she had terminal cancer.  

DISNEY

Disney+ hunts for The Stolen Girl

TRAILER: Denise Gough, Holliday Grainger, Ambika Mod and Jim Sturgess star in The Stolen Girl, a five-part psychological drama launching on Disney+ around the world and Freeform in the US on April 16.

DISNEY

Thinking outside the box

Costume designer Maja Meschede opens up about her work bringing Victorian London to life for Disney+ period drama A Thousand Blows, which saw her partner with actors Malachi Kirby, Erin Doherty and Stephen Graham for this epic saga set in the world of illegal boxing.  

DISNEY

Getting the party started

Rivals executive producers Dominic Treadwell-Collins and Alexander Lamb join Missing You EP Richard Fee and directors Kari Skogland and Mohini Herse to consider how to best build TV productions to ensure creativity remains at the heart of the drama.  

DISNEY

Welcome to Paradise

Hollywood stars James Marsden and Julianne Nicholson explain why viewers should expect the unexpected from Paradise, the new Disney+ series from This is Us creator Dan Fogelman that sets up a murder-mystery thriller in a world where nothing is what it seems.  

DISNEY

Disney+ begins search for The Stolen Girl

FIRST LOOK: Denise Gough, Holliday Grainger, Ambika Mod and Jim Sturgess lead the cast of The Stolen Girl, a tense thriller about a mother’s worst nightmare that is set to launch on Disney+ in 2025.

DISNEY

Shaken and stirred

Disney+ and SVT series Whiskey on the Rocks blends drama with the absurd to tell the story of a Soviet submarine that ran aground off the Swedish coast in 1981. Stars Rolf Lassgård and Elsa Saisio, writer Henrik Jansson-Schweizer and director Björn Stein tell DQ how they made it.    

DISNEY

Disney+, Hulu square up to A Thousand Blows

TRAILER: Malachi Kirby, Erin Doherty and Stephen Graham delve into the perilous world of illegal boxing in 1880s Victorian London in A Thousand Blows, coming to Disney+ and Hulu in the US on February 21.

DISNEY

Hulu, Disney+ uncover Paradise

TRAILER: Sterling K Brown reunites with This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman for Paradise, a murder mystery launching on Hulu in the US and Disney+ in January 2025.

DISNEY

Code of silence

Say Nothing writer and executive producer Patrick Radden Keefe discusses the dramatisation of his own book about the Troubles in Northern Ireland and explains why the Disney+ series serves as a cautionary tale for divided societies threatening to tip into violence.  

DISNEY

Five Minutes With… Alex Hassell

The Rivals star talks Disney+’s Jilly Cooper adaptation, playing the “intimidating” showjumper-turned-politician Rupert Campbell-Black and why actors should be brave enough to take on challenging roles.

DISNEY

Love, power and Rivals

Disney+ brings high drama and romance with Rivals, an adaptation of Dame Jilly Cooper’s novel. DQ visits the set to meet the stars and creative team behind this lavish, witty exploration of 1980s duelling egos in the fictional county of Rutshire.

DISNEY

Disney+ faces A Thousand Blows

TRAILER: Malachi Kirby, Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty star in A Thousand Blows, a new Disney+ series set in the perilous world of illegal boxing in 1880s Victorian London.

DISNEY

Disney+ out to beat Rivals

TRAILER: Alex Hassell, David Tennant, Aidan Turner and Bella Maclean lead a starry cast in Rivals, an adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel coming to Disney+ and Hulu in the US on October 18.

DISNEY

Hulu, Disney+ reveal more Murders

TRAILER: Here’s the trailer for the fourth season of Only Murders in the Building, coming to Hulu in the US and Disney+ from August 27.

DISNEY

Grill thrills

US actor Edwin Lee Gibson takes DQ inside the making of acclaimed restaurant drama The Bear, playing chef Ebraheim, the key to the show’s success and why the food on set occasionally gets him into trouble.

DISNEY

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.

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