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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.
Killer instinct
Death in Paradise creator Robert Thorogood transports DQ to a town in Buckinghamshire for his latest crime drama, The Marlow Murder Club, which is finally hitting the small screen almost a decade after he first tried to sell the idea.
ITV reveals Lucy Boynton in A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story
FIRST LOOK: Lucy Boynton stars as Ruth Ellis in forthcoming ITV drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, which details the hidden story behind the last woman in Britain to be hanged.
Unmasking the pandemic
Three writers, all with medical backgrounds, have come together to chart the NHS experience during the Covid-19 pandemic. Rachel Clarke, Prasanna Puwanarajah and Jed Mercurio explain why ITV’s Breathtaking might be the most important drama they will ever write.
SBS sets romantic drama Four Years Later
FIRST LOOK: Filming is underway on Four Years Later, a romantic drama coming to SBS Australia.
Urgent delivery
ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office dramatises one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in UK history – a scandal that criminalised hundreds of Post Office managers. Writer Gwyneth Hughes, director James Strong and star Toby Jones discuss the importance and difficulty of telling this true story.
Call me Cary
DQ says hello to Jason Isaacs on the set of his ITV drama Archie, where the actor reveals the lengths he has gone to transform himself into the man who would become Cary Grant, for a biopic about the British Hollywood star’s life on and off screen.
Reckoning with the past
The BBC will come under scrutiny for its decision to commission The Reckoning, a factual drama about how former presenter Jimmy Savile committed hundreds of sexual assaults over several decades. But for the team behind the series, it’s a story that needed to be told.
Keeping the Fire burning
World on Fire stars Jonah Hauer-King, Julia Brown and new cast member Ahad Raza Mir preview the second season of Peter Bowker’s BBC wartime drama, discuss its focus on ordinary people in extraordinary times and reveal how the Sahara Desert was recreated in Belfast.
Baby on board
Maternal writer Jacqui Honess-Martin and star Lisa McGrillis reveal how reality met fiction when making this six-part drama about three working mothers returning to their hospital jobs after having children.
Friendly fire
Stars Damian Lewis and Anna Maxwell Martin join the team behind A Spy Among Friends to discuss the making of this ITVX espionage drama, which is based on the true story of two lifelong friends and British spies – one of whom is a double agent.
Truth be told
Litvinenko star Margarita Levieva and director Jim Field Smith outline how the miniseries explores the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and explain how they sought to honour the real people involved.
Giving Everything
Tell Me Everything star Callina Liang tells DQ everything about making her screen debut in this ITVX coming-of-age drama, how it puts teenage mental health in the spotlight and how she learned to cry.
Marriage vows
The A Word spin-off Ralph & Katie continued the story of the titular newlyweds as they face a host of domestic challenges. DQ spoke to writers Genevieve Barr and Tom Wentworth about working on the series, which broke new ground for inclusive drama.
Caring about Karen
As Karen Pirie becomes the latest detective to join the ranks at ITV, DQ interrogates series creator and writer Emer Kenny about adapting Val McDermid’s novels, her own starring role and being inspired by Lennie James.
Getting to grips with Holding
Author and TV host Graham Norton, director Kathy Burke and writers Dominic Treadwell-Collins and Karen Cogan discuss Holding, their adaptation of Norton’s novel set in a small Irish community where the local police officer faces his first murder investigation.
Living room nightmare
Writer Simon Ashdown, director Sheree Folkson and executive producer Belinda Campbell invite DQ into Our House, a four-part series that blends thriller and love story to imagine what happens when your home is taken from you.
Spy flier
Director James Watkins speaks to DQ about bringing Len Deighton’s iconic spy Harry Palmer to television in six-part drama The Ipcress File and casting Joe Cole in the role made famous by Michael Caine.
Learning from Litvinenko
Writer George Kay and producer Patrick Spence give DQ an insight into upcoming true crime drama Litvinenko, which tells the story of police officers investigating the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and his wife Marina’s fight for justice.
Identifying The Suspect
Writer Peter Berry and executive producer Jake Lushington preview ITV’s psychological thriller The Suspect, in which Aidan Turner plays a psychologist helping police investigate a suspicious death while keeping more than a few secrets of his own.