Articles about Jeff Pope
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.
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.
DQ100 – Part one
In the first part of the DQ100 2022/23, we pick out a range of shows to tune in for and the actors, directors and writers making them, as well as some of the trends and trailblazers worth catching up with.
DQ Recommends: Drama writers
DQ asks some of the people who make TV around the world which writers are crafting the most compelling scripts and complex characters in today’s drama series.
Unlocking creativity
ITV and S4C are both using drama to tell some of the unique stories that are emerging from life under lockdown. Producers Jeff Pope and Pip Broughton tell DQ about making Isolation Stories and Cyswllt (Lifeline).
Break-in bad
A real-life multimillion-pound heist was the inspiration for Hatton Garden, a new ITV miniseries about the elderly gang behind the ‘crime of the decade.’ DQ goes on set to meet the cast and producer.
Tackling the darkest subjects
Writing about real-life topics always demands accuracy and compassion. But in the case of child-killing stories, it’s also important to have a genuine justification for telling the story. Andy Fry reports.