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Articles about Stephen Graham

STEPHEN GRAHAM

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.  

STEPHEN GRAHAM

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.  

STEPHEN GRAHAM

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.  

STEPHEN GRAHAM

Disney+, Hulu square up to A Thousand Blows

TRAILER: Malachi Kirby, Erin Doherty and Stephen Graham delve into the perilous world of illegal boxing in 1880s Victorian London in A Thousand Blows, coming to Disney+ and Hulu in the US on February 21.

STEPHEN GRAHAM

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.

STEPHEN GRAHAM

Disney+ faces A Thousand Blows

TRAILER: Malachi Kirby, Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty star in A Thousand Blows, a new Disney+ series set in the perilous world of illegal boxing in 1880s Victorian London.

STEPHEN GRAHAM

Thrill seeker

From working on Netflix series Bodies to creating decomposing bodies in her garden, hair, make-up and prosthetics designer Melanie Lenihan speaks to DQ about her career in high-end television and how she’s helping others to overcome the barriers she has faced in the business.

STEPHEN GRAHAM

Making a Point

As the BBC serves up restaurant drama Boiling Point, star and executive producer Hannah Walters tells DQ about its journey from short film to the small screen, and how she and husband Stephen Graham are telling stories through their own company, Matriarch Productions.

STEPHEN GRAHAM

Heating up

Set in a British restaurant, one-take feature film Boiling Point caused a sensation on its release in 2021. As a small-screen sequel heads to the BBC, DQ speaks to star Stephen Graham and fellow executive producers Bart Ruspoli and Hester Ruoff about what’s in store.

STEPHEN GRAHAM

Too hot to handle

As production begins on BBC series Boiling Point, the team behind the five-part restaurant-set drama discuss developing the feature film spin-off and reveal why, unlike the original, it won’t be shot in one take.

STEPHEN GRAHAM

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.

STEPHEN GRAHAM

Treacherous waters

The cast and crew of The North Water reveal their perilous experience filming scenes in the Arctic for this story of an 1850s whaling expedition, written and directed by Andrew Haigh.

STEPHEN GRAHAM

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.

STEPHEN GRAHAM

Virtuous drama

Stephen Graham, Helen Behan and Shane Meadows discuss making Channel 4 drama The Virtues, difficult characters and the importance of telling working-class stories.

STEPHEN GRAHAM

Turning the Scrooge

British screenwriter Steven Knight has reinvented A Christmas Carol for the BBC and FX. DQ speaks to some of the creative team to find out why this isn’t Peaky Blinders meets The Muppets.

STEPHEN GRAHAM

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.

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