Articles about Sky
Small Town’s big star
Mad Men star Christina Hendricks discusses her latest role in Sky comedy Small Town, Big Story, why she likes ensemble dramas and her ambitions to appear in a romcom.
Sky heads to Small Town, Big Story
TRAILER: Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks and House of the Dragon star Paddy Considine head the cast of Sky “dramatic comedy” Small Town, Big Story, created and directed by Chris O’Dowd.
Truth amid tragedy
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth dramatises Jim Swire’s fight for justice following the 1988 Lockerbie disaster. Actor Sam Troughton tells DQ about making the impactful series, how it marries real events with human emotion, and his role as one of the few fictional characters on screen.
Sky marks The Death of Bunny Munro
FIRST LOOK: Matt Smith takes centre stage in The Death of Bunny Munro, an upcoming Sky drama based on Nick Cave’s novel of the same name. It will air in 2025.
Sealing the deal
Director and producer David Stubbs transports DQ to the New Zealand set of this family adventure series to reveal how his “old school” approach to special effects helped him to achieve a climactic final sequence featuring an animatronic seal.
Sweet success
Creator Kirstie Swain and director Ella Jones reflect on their partnership behind Sky’s darkly comedic ‘coming of rage’ drama Sweetpea, working with star Ella Purnell and being inspired by workplace mockumentary The Office.
Sharp shooter
DQ heads to Budapest to meet Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch and the team behind Sky and Peacock’s globe-trotting action thriller The Day of the Jackal, a very modern update on the classic tale of an elusive assassin and the spy out to get him.
Sky, Peacock investigate Lockerbie bombing
TRAILER: Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) and Catherine McCormack (Slow Horses) take the lead in Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, a five-part series set against the backdrop of one of the world’s worst terrorist attacks. It is due to air on Sky and Peacock on January 2, 2025.
Sky, Peacock preview The Day of the Jackal
TRAILER: Sky and US streamer Peacock have released the trailer for The Day of the Jackal, a 10-part series starring Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch and Úrsula Corberó. It launches in the UK on Sky Atlantic on November 7 and the US on November 14.
Heaven or Helgoland
In Helgoland 513, the survivors of a deadly pandemic must live together under barbaric rules that mean the population can never increase. Creators Florian Wentsch and Veronica Priefer and executive producer Oliver Ossege discuss the very modern roots of this dystopian drama.
Sky meets Sweetpea
TRAILER: Fallout star Ella Purnell heads the cast of Sweetpea, a “twisted, coming-of-rage” series coming to Sky this October. Here’s a teaser trailer.
Sky reveals M. Son of the Century trailer
TRAILER: Take a look at M. Son of the Century, the upcoming Sky biopic of Benito Mussolini directed by Joe Wright (Darkest Hour).
Sky, Peacock name Jackal day
TRAILER: Sky and US streamer Peacock have released a first look teaser of The Day of the Jackal, a 10-part series starring Eddie Redmayne that will debut this November.
Sky unveils Mussolini biopic
FIRST LOOK: Luca Marinelli stars as Benito Mussolini in M. Son of the Century, an upcoming Sky drama that will have its world premiere at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
Prince Harry
Young House of the Dragon star Harry Collett, who plays Prince Jacaerys Velaryon, sits down with DQ to talk about his process as an actor, learning to sword fight and his dream collaborators.
Niamh Algar, Tom Hollander to lead Sky’s Iris
Niamh Algar (Mary & George) and Tom Hollander (The White Lotus) will go head-to-head in new Sky thriller Iris, which is created and written by Luther’s Neil Cross.
Hope amid horror
DQ heads to Bratislava, Slovakia, to see the making of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Sky and Peacock’s adaptation of Heather Morris’s novel inspired by a real love story set against the atrocities of a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Brothers in crime
Filmmakers – and twin brothers – Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo write, produce and direct Dostoevskij, a melancholic police thriller about a detective hunting a serial killer. They speak to DQ about their debut series, their partnership and why they won’t tell viewers what to think.
Sky, Peacock reveal The Tattooist of Auschwitz trailer
Here’s the trailer for The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the upcoming drama based by Heather Morris’s novel that will debut on Sky in the UK and Peacock in the US from May 2.
Counting the cost
BBC comedy Spent marks the first original series from writer Michelle de Swarte, who also stars as a former model failing to face up to her new reality away from the catwalk. She and executive producer Jack Bayles reveal how they partnered to create the six-part show.