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Netflix toasts House of Guinness
TRAILER: Netflix has unveiled the trailer for House of Guinness, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s epic series inspired by one of Europe’s most famous and enduring family dynasties. It debuts on September 25.
Netflix opens doors to House of Guinness
FIRST LOOK: Anthony Boyle, Louis Partridge, Emily Fairn, Fionn O’Shea and James Norton lead the cast of House of Guinness, a period drama from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight coming to Netflix on September 25, 2025.
Heroes’ journey
As season two of SAS Rogue Heroes shifts from North Africa to mainland Europe during the Second World War, director Stephen Woolfenden and producer Stephen Smallwood discuss making the six new episodes and reveal how they recreated the 1943 invasion of Sicily.
BBC reunites SAS Rogue Heroes
FIRST LOOK: Jack O’Connell, Connor Swindells, Sofia Boutella and Dominic West reunite for the second season SAS Rogue Heroes, coming soon to BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
Ska struck
In Steven Knight’s BBC drama This Town, a group of young people are drawn into the explosive new world of ska music in 1980s England. Executive producer Katie McAleese looks back on making the “unconventional” show and creating its original soundtrack.
An unseen craft
Alison Barnett, the winner of this year’s Bafta Television Craft Special Award, is an industry pioneer as one of the very first female heads of production in the UK. She tells DQ about her prolific career, breaking barriers and filming again after the pandemic.
Knight on the Town
Is Steven Knight the busiest screenwriter in the business? With three dramas on air last year and several projects coming in 2023, the Peaky Blinders creator opens up about his upcoming ska music drama This Town, adapting Dickens and building his own production studio.
Heroic effort
Peaky Blinders meets Band of Brothers in SAS Rogue Heroes, a rocking retelling of how the specialist British Army unit was forged during the Second World War. Director Tom Shankland, producer Stephen Smallwood and executive producer Karen Wilson reveal how they made it.
Going Rogue
Martin Haines, executive producer of upcoming BBC series SAS: Rogue Heroes, tells DQ about linking up with Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight for this story about the birth of the special forces unit.
Rebuilding Utopia
Gone Girl writer Gillian Flynn is bringing her take on British conspiracy thriller Utopia to Amazon Prime Video. The showrunner and executive producer Sharon Levy tell DQ about why the series is more important – and prescient – than ever.
Life through a lens
After working on a pair of adaptations, writer Daisy Coulam is bringing an original story to television in the shape of Deadwater Fell. She tells DQ how a love of true crime shows and the power of social media inspired the series.
Deep dive
Anna Friel, Sinead Keenan and Rosalind Eleazar star in ITV’s emotional thriller Deep Water. Writer Anna Symon introduces the series, produced by Kudos and distributed by Endemol Shine International, and discusses a key scene in the first episode that lays the groundwork for events to come.
Fresh face
Grantchester has a new crime-fighting vicar. DQ speaks to executive producers Diederick Santer and Emma Kingsman-Lloyd about the challenge of replacing its leading character, while new star Tom Brittney discusses joining the series.
Blast from the past
Kit Harington stars in and exec produces BBC1’s Gunpowder, which dramatises the plot to kill King James I. Alongside co-star Liv Tyler and the show’s writer and director, he reveals his very personal reason for getting involved.
Gunpowder, treason and plot
Kit Harington and Liv Tyler travel back in time as the stars of historical thriller Gunpowder. Production designer Grant Montgomery tells DQ how he recreated 17th century England for the three-part miniseries.
A human story
In his first screen drama, novelist Patrick Gale tells two gay love stories set 60 years apart. DQ speaks to the writer and actors Vanessa Redgrave and Joanna Vanderham about starring in Man In An Orange Shirt .
Goodbye Broadchurch
It’s the beginning of the end for Broadchurch as the third and final season debuts on ITV. Stars David Tennant and Olivia Colman and creator Chris Chibnall reflect on the show’s success.
Pick of the bunch
Writer Amanda Coe and executive producer Manda Levin reveal how they won the battle to turn Louise Doughty’s best-selling novel Apple Tree Yard into a four-part BBC drama starring Emily Watson and Ben Chaplin.
Brits show progress in LGBT drama
The US leads the way in terms of dramatic opportunities for LGBT actors and writers but, as Patrick Gale prepares a gay-themed drama for BBC1, the UK is starting to make more of an effort.
YouTube takes scripted Step
Google-owned YouTube is finally getting into the scripted origination business, while there are also new projects from drama heavyweights Netflix, ITV, Sky, JJ Abrams, UFA and Kudos.