Articles about ITV Studios
Bay of reckoning
The Bay creator and writer Daragh Carville reflects on the fifth season of the ITV crime drama and a pivotal moment in the finale where “truths long unspoken” are finally brought out into the open.
Clubbing together
A retired archaeologist, a dog walker and a vicar’s wife walk into a crime scene… As The Marlow Murder Club returns for a second season, stars Samantha Bond, Jo Martin and Natalie Dew discuss making the murder-mystery series and why it’s a comfort on television.
ITV, BritBox reunite After the Flood
FIRST LOOK: Sophie Rundle returns to lead the cast for the second season of ITV and BritBox thriller After the Flood, which is now filming in Greater Manchester and Derbyshire.
Behind the headlines
Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Britain, but was she judged for more than her crime? Writer Kelly Jones tells DQ how she wanted to present the “real woman” caught up in tragic events in ITV miniseries A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story.
Suchet’s small-screen success
Poirot star David Suchet returns to the small screen after a seven-year absence with a leading role in The Au Pair. He explains why this Channel 5 thriller lured him back to acting and reflects on the role of his lifetime playing Agatha Christie’s iconic sleuth.
Case study
Murdoch Mysteries star Yannick Bisson and executive producer Christina Jennings join DQ to celebrate 300 episodes – and counting – of the Canadian period drama, revealing why playing the title character is a “home run” and how they keep the detective series fresh after 18 seasons.
ITV identifies The Hack
FIRST LOOK: David Tennant, Robert Carlyle and Toby Jones will star in phone-hacking factual drama The Hack, written by Jack Thorne for ITV in the UK and Stan in Australia.
As the Crow Girl flies
The Crow Girl writer Milly Thomas and executive producer Tony Wood discuss their Paramount+ adaptation of this “sprawling,” dark Swedish crime novel and reveal how a celebrity fan partnered with them to bring it to the screen – Guns ‘n’ Roses guitarist Slash.
Leighton Meester, Luke Cook play Good Cop/Bad Cop
TRAILER: Leighton Meester and Luke Cooper play a sister-and-brother detective team in Good Cop/Bad Cop, debuting in the US and Australia in February.
The Crow Girl takes off with Paramount+
TRAILER: Eve Myles, Katherine Kelly and Dougray Scott star in The Crow Girl, the latest UK original series from Paramount+ that is set to debut on January 16.
Five Minutes With… Nathalie Armin
The actor tells DQ about filming the second season of BBC drama Showtrial and how the series plays with moral ambiguity.
Snow queen
Filmmaker Amma Asante takes her biggest step into television as the director of Smilla’s Sense of Snow, a six-part crime drama set in a futuristic Copenhagen. She speaks to DQ about how she related to the title character and the demands of making a miniseries.
Crash course
Upcoming German drama Hundertdreizehn explores a single story through connected characters and multiple points of view. Writer Arndt Stüwe outlines the scriptwriting process and discusses his love of non-linear storytelling.
ARD, ORF count on Hundertdreizehn
Filming is underway on German drama Hundertdreizehn, an ensemble series that centres on the stories of six people connected by a catastrophic traffic incident.
Class clash
Actors Eva Morgan and Vinette Robinson reflect on making Channel 4 whodunnit thriller The Gathering, their shared passion for the Liverpool-set project and the importance of its working-class representation.
Masterpiece heads down the aisle with The Forsyte Saga
FIRST LOOK: Here’s Doctor Who star Millie Gibson and Joshua Orpin (Titans) in the first image released from The Forsyte Saga, a new adaptation of John Galsworthy’s Forsyte novels.
Party people
After the Party’s award-winning star Robyn Malcolm and producer Helen Bowden reflect on the moral storm swirling at the centre of this New Zealand drama and explain how they worked to keep viewers on edge until its conclusion.
Fit for a King
British actor Anjli Mohindra tells DQ about taking the lead for the first time in folk-horror crime drama The Red King, in which she plays a by-the-book detective who picks up the unsolved case of a missing boy while confronting an island community with a unique cult history.
Hot property
After developing her screenwriting career on TV thrillers such as Fool Me Once, Charlotte Coben has created her first original series in Prime Video’s comedic thriller Dead Hot. She tells DQ about blending humour with grief, filming in Liverpool and working with her author father Harlan.
Shiv show
DQ visits Dublin to meet the cast of The Dry as they reunite to film the second season of the ITVX and RTÉ comedy-drama about a family’s battle with addiction – and each other.