Articles about Fremantle
Addressing The Rumour
All Creatures Great & Small star Rachel Shenton speaks to DQ about taking the lead in 5 drama The Rumour, in which she plays a mother who discovers that sharing some gossip brings buried secrets to the surface and leads to unintended consequences.
5 hears The Rumour
FIRST LOOK: All Creatures Great & Small star Rachel Shenton heads the cast of The Rumour, a five-part thriller coming to 5 this autumn.
Channel 4’s In Flight takes off with Katherine Kelly
TRAILER: Katherine Kelly stars in In Flight, a new crime thriller taking off on Channel 4 in the UK on Tuesday, August 12. Watch the trailer now.
Burning brighter
For the second season of Bay of Fires, Marta Dusseldorp revisits a series where she’s more than just the star. She tells DQ about expanding the show’s story, juggling multiple roles behind the scenes and catering for some unexpected visitors.
Katherine Kelly is In Flight for Channel 4
FIRST LOOK: Katherine Kelly plays a flight attendant caught up in a drug smuggling operation in six-part drama In Flight, coming to Channel 4 in the UK later this year.
BBC opens The Cage
FIRST LOOK: Sheridan Smith and Michael Socha are pictured in The Cage, an upcoming BBC crime drama set in a Liverpool casino and written by The Responder’s Tony Schumacher.
Planning for Disasters
Jo Joyner, Shelley Conn and Emily Taaffe reflect on the moral dilemma at the heart of Paramount+ emotional thriller Little Disasters and discuss how they came together to create the drama’s central characters, whose friendships are torn apart by secrets and revelations.
Paramount+ brings on Little Disasters
TRAILER: Diane Kruger, Jo Joyner, Emily Taaffe and Shelley Conn star in Little Disasters, a Paramount+ series based on Sarah Vaughan’s novel of the same name that will debut in the UK & Ireland on May 22.
High tech on the high seas
DQ travels to Rome to meet stars Can Yaman and Alanah Bloor plus the creative team behind Sandokan and find out how skilled craftmanship and state-of-the-art technology have been merged for this ambitious retelling of Emilio Salgari’s classic pirate saga.
BBC settles in for Film Club
FIRST LOOK: Aimee Lou Wood, Nabhaan Rizwan, Suranne Jones and Liv Hill star in Film Club, a romantic comedy-drama debuting later this year on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer.
Hagen days
Hagen directors Cyrill Boss and Philipp Stennert take DQ inside this fantasy drama based on a centuries-old saga, discuss producing a film and series simultaneously, and explain why the show is more The Godfather than Game of Thrones.
Off the rails
Nightsleeper executive producer Kate Harwood discusses the BBC drama’s real-time storytelling format and reveals how the train-set thriller was made without leaving its Glasgow studio.
Reimagining Bergman
How do you take on the work of Ingmar Bergman? Director Tomas Alfredson and writer Sara Johnsen tell DQ how they reimagined the influential Swedish filmmaker’s work by adapting his 2000 feature Trolösa (Faithless) into a six-part series.
Who’s the Daddy?
Writer Danielle Ward, director Damon Beesley and executive producer Phil Gilbert discuss their partnership on BBC Three series Daddy Issues, the challenge with comedies, and working with “dream” stars Aimee Lou Wood and David Morrissey.
Sky reveals M. Son of the Century trailer
TRAILER: Take a look at M. Son of the Century, the upcoming Sky biopic of Benito Mussolini directed by Joe Wright (Darkest Hour).
Sky unveils Mussolini biopic
FIRST LOOK: Luca Marinelli stars as Benito Mussolini in M. Son of the Century, an upcoming Sky drama that will have its world premiere at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
Unusual Suspect
Eagle Eye Drama’s Jo McGrath and writer Joy Wilkinson sit down with DQ to discuss the return of Channel 4 thriller Suspect, building its starry cast and why its unique structure is rooted in the theatre.
Can Yaman plays pirates in Sandokan
FIRST LOOK: Turkish actor Can Yaman leads the cast of Sandokan, a new adaptation of Emilio Salgari’s historic saga about the adventures of the titular pirate who fights against colonial powers in Southeast Asia.
What happened to Herrhausen?
German political drama Herrhausen – The Banker & The Bomb shines a light on the assassination of a prominent banker just weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Producer Gabriele Sperl, writer Thomas Wendrich and star Oliver Masucci tell DQ how they brought this true story to the screen.
C*A*U*G*H*T in the act
Australian actor and director Kick Gurry reveals the backstory to his military satire C*A*U*G*H*T, how Hollywood star Sean Penn joined the project and how it comments on contemporary obsession with fame.