Articles about Jimmy McGovern
Following the law
With recent credits on dramas including Time and Unforgivable, Jeanette Ashmole details her journey from criminal barrister to TV legal consultant, her partnership with writer Jimmy McGovern and how she’s acting on her own screenwriting ambitions.
BBC sets launch for Unforgivable
TRAILER: Anna Friel and Bobby Schofield star in Unforgivable, the new BBC drama from Jimmy McGovern (Time) that is set to debut this Thursday, July 24.
Anna Friel heads BBC drama Unforgivable
FIRST LOOK: Anna Friel, Bobby Schofield, Anna Maxwell Martin, David Threlfall and Austin Haynes star in Unforgivable, a new drama from Jimmy McGovern (Time) airing later this year on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.
Remade Abroad: Accused
Showrunner Howard Gordon, star Michael Chiklis, director Marlee Matlin and the team behind US drama Accused outline how they have adapted Jimmy McGovern’s British anthology series to tackle themes of race, power, identity and truth.
Ones to Watch: Trends & Trailblazers
DQ spotlights the people, places and things that have provided the biggest talking points in television drama in the past year, from virtual production to Covid-19 supervisors.
Serving Time
Bafta-winning writer Jimmy McGovern and executive producer Tom Sherry tell DQ about partnering with stars Sean Bean and Stephen Graham on Time, a prison-set drama in which an inmate and an officer contemplate guilt and forgiveness.
HBO civil rights drama gets writer
A high-profile drama about the death of Emmett Till is to be written by rising star Steven Caple Jr. Meanwhile, BBC3 is gearing up for the latest Doctor Who spin-off, Class, scripted by Patrick Ness.
BBC heads in the write direction
The BBC has become a drama powerhouse by nurturing its relationships with great writers. Here we look at some of the talent the UK pubcaster will be working with in 2016.