Articles about The Sixth Commandment
Backstage at the Baftas
“Extraordinary” writing, creative perseverance and stories about real people were celebrated as Top Boy, The Sixth Commandment and Happy Valley led the way at the Bafta Television Awards 2024. DQ was backstage to hear from some of the winners.
Crafting The Sixth Commandment
Ahead of the Bafta Television Craft Awards, nominated writer Sarah Phelps unpacks the success of true crime drama The Sixth Commandment and explains why audiences are craving shared experiences and how she writes her way out of trouble.
Commanding presence
Named a European Shooting Star for 2024, Irish actor Éanna Hardwicke tells DQ about some of the key roles in his career to date, including his turn in acclaimed BBC drama The Sixth Commandment, and the task of portraying real people on screen.
Commanding drama
The Sixth Commandment director Saul Dibb takes DQ inside the making of the “bold and challenging” BBC four-parter, which he describes as an “anti-true crime” drama owing to its focus on the victims at the centre of the real-life story it dramatises.
Sixth sense
Telling the tale of a serial killer who manipulated and gaslit his victims, true crime series The Sixth Commandment has been hailed as one of the dramas of the year. Writer Sarah Phelps and producers Brian Woods and Derek Wax reveal how this story came to the screen.