Articles about Jack Thorne
Adolescence honoured with 2025 DQ Craft Award
Adolescence, Netflix’s one-take-per-episode limited series, is the recipient of the 2025 Drama Quarterly Craft Award.
BBC, Stan take off with Lord of the Flies
FIRST LOOK: Here’s the first images from Lord of the Flies, Jack Thorne’s four-part adaptation of William Golding’s classic novel that is coming soon to the BBC in the UK and Stan in Australia.
Hacked off
The Hack director Lewis Arnold and executive producer Patrick Spence take DQ inside the making of this ITV and Stan factual drama about the British tabloid phone-hacking scandal, the stylistic approach to its two story strands and creating challenging television.
ITV, David Tennant investigate The Hack
FIRST LOOK: David Tennant, Robert Carlyle and Toby Jones appear in The Hack, a new ITV drama about the phone hacking scandal coming soon to ITV.
Keeley Hawes, Paapa Essiedu start Falling for Channel 4
FIRST LOOK: Keeley Hawes and Paapa Essiedu have started filming Falling, a love story written by Jack Thorne (Adolescence, Help) coming soon to Channel 4.
Making Adolescence – part three
In the final part of our look at the making of Netflix’s Adolescence, the show’s creative team dissect the post-production process behind the one-shot drama, discuss its social message and reveal why they’d do it all again.
Making Adolescence – part two
In the second part of our look at the making of Netflix one-shot drama Adolescence, the show’s creative team take DQ inside the rehearsal and filming process for the cast and crew, who had a strictly limited number of takes to achieve the production’s ambitions.
Making Adolescence – part one
In the first part of DQ’s look at the making of Netflix one-shot drama Adolescence, director Philip Barantini, writer Jack Thorne and actors and executive producers Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters detail their early preparations and their motivations to tell this timely and topical story.
Clearing the air
DQ heads to Manchester and the set of Toxic Town, where writer Jack Thorne, executive producer Annabel Jones and stars including Jodie Whittaker discuss making Netflix’s four-part drama based on the enduring impact of one of the UK’s biggest environmental scandals.
Netflix arrives at Toxic Town
TRAILER: Jodie Whittaker, Aimee Lou Wood, Rory Kinnear and Robert Carlyle lead the cast of Toxic Town, a four-part limited series based on a real-life UK environmental scandal that is coming to Netflix on February 27.
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.
Netflix hits Adolescence
FIRST LOOK: Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters and Erin Doherty lead the cast of Adolescence, a one-take crime drama coming to Netflix in 2025.
Calling for Help
Writer Jack Thorne and stars Jodie Comer and Stephen Graham reveal how they prepared for Help, Channel 4’s hard-hitting feature-length drama about the devastating impact of Covid-19 on a care home.
Dark days
Executive producer Jane Tranter and writer Jack Thorne explain why the second season of Philip Pullman adaptation His Dark Materials has a different feel from the first and discuss the pitfalls of bringing the beloved book trilogy to the screen.
All that jazz
Pitch-perfect music meets Parisian drama in a Netflix series about an American jazz club in the French capital. Writer Jack Thorne and star Joanna Kulig invite DQ to The Eddy.
How The Accident happened
Genevieve Barr, Mark Lewis Jones and Adrian Scarborough discuss their roles in four-part miniseries The Accident and explain how Jack Thorne’s scripts explore a community torn apart by tragedy.
Blame game
As Jack Thorne’s The Accident hits screens, DQ speaks to stars Adrian Scarborough, Genevieve Barr and Mark Lewis Jones to discuss the themes behind the Channel 4 miniseries and find out how it balances grief and humour.
Virtues reality
Stephen Graham gives an award-winning performance as a man facing up to his haunting past in Channel 4 miniseries The Virtues. Shane Meadows, the director known for This Is England, details how his own life experiences inspired the drama.
Telling the truth
Factual dramas are a staple of the scripted television landscape and can often be relied upon to bring in big ratings. DQ explores how these series are developed and brought to air, with contributions from the writers behind Waco and Kiri.
Jack of all trades
As British drama Kiri makes its US debut, writer Jack Thorne tells DQ about penning the four-part miniseries and his approach to writing, with upcoming projects including The Eddy and His Dark Materials.