Articles about UKTV
Hit squad
Writer Howard Overman and director David Caffrey tell DQ how they drew on influences including Out of Sight, Starsky & Hutch and Jackie Brown to create Hit Point, an “ambitious” crime drama about two detectives battling an increasing attraction to each other.
UKTV preps new chapter of Bookish
FIRST LOOK: Jason Watkins, Miranda Richardson, Simon Callow and Ruth Codd are among the stars joining Mark Gatiss and Polly Walker in season two of Bookish, which has recently completed filming ahead of its return to UKTV’s U&alibi later this year.
Midsummer crime’s dream
With Shakespeare & Hathaway back for a long-awaited fifth season, BBC Studios executive producer Neil Irvine tells DQ about the return of the murder-mystery comedy-drama, working with stars Mark Benton and Jo Joyner, and the secret to its success.
Doing the dirty work
Mudtown series producer Hannah Thomas outlines how a key scene in the opening episode sets up the show’s central clash between a magistrate and a local crime boss, and reveals how its impactful courthouse bathroom setting was recreated in an old Newport factory.
Read all about it
Stars Mark Gatiss and Polly Walker take DQ inside the world of Bookish, a murder-mystery series that introduces Gabriel Book, a bookshop owner with the knowledge needed to help the police tackle some baffling cases in post-war London.
Fit for the Mitfords
Production designer Matthew Button and costume designer Claire Collins take DQ into the world of Outrageous, UKTV and BritBox’s period biopic of the real-life Mitford sisters, and reveal how they recreated British high society of the 1930s.
Totally Outrageous
Executive producer Elizabeth Kilgarriff and writer Sarah Williams reflect on Outrageous, a six-part series that dramatises the lives of the aristocratic Mitford sisters in 1930s Britain, revealing why the title perfectly describes both its protagonists and the way their story is told.
Six of the Best: Helen Perry
The UKTV drama commissioning head’s picks include a “groundbreaking” US crime series, a character-led sports show and a fact-based drama that made real-world headlines.
I, Chris Lang
Unforgotten creator Chris Lang’s new show, I, Jack Wright, focuses on the shockwaves sent through a family by its deceased patriarch’s will. The writer and exec producer lays out his wishes for the series and explains why he wanted to tell this story.
Jersey boy
Bergerac star Damien Molony joins writer Toby Whithouse, UKTV head of drama Helen Perry and executive producers Ben Bickerton and Phil Trethowan to tell DQ how they revamped the classic 1980s detective drama and why filming in Jersey was “non-negotiable.”
Case study
Murdoch Mysteries star Yannick Bisson and executive producer Christina Jennings join DQ to celebrate 300 episodes – and counting – of the Canadian period drama, revealing why playing the title character is a “home run” and how they keep the detective series fresh after 18 seasons.
Bergerac’s back for U&Drama
FIRST LOOK: Damien Molony (The Split) takes the title role in Bergerac, the upcoming reimagining of the classic Jersey-set detective series coming to UKTV’s U and U&Drama in 2025.
UKTV identifies I, Jack Wright
FIRST LOOK: Nikki Amuka-Bird, John Simm and Gemma Jones head the cast of I, Jack Wright, a murder mystery drama created by writer Chris Lang (Unforgotten).
UKTV tells Outrageous tale
FIRST LOOK: Bessie Carter, Joanna Vanderham, Isobel Jesper Jones and Shannon Watson star in Outrageous, a dramatisation of the story of the Mitford sisters due to air in 2025.
UKTV, Britbox unite for Outrageous
Bridgerton’s Bessie Carter stars in Outrageous, a six-part series now in production that tells the story of the Mitford sisters set against the backdrop 1930s British high society.
More Drama with Marlow Murder Club S2
The Marlow Murder Club will return for a second season, after UKTV’s Drama and US broadcaster Masterpiece ordered six new episodes.
Fit for a King
British actor Anjli Mohindra tells DQ about taking the lead for the first time in folk-horror crime drama The Red King, in which she plays a by-the-book detective who picks up the unsolved case of a missing boy while confronting an island community with a unique cult history.
Killer instinct
Death in Paradise creator Robert Thorogood transports DQ to a town in Buckinghamshire for his latest crime drama, The Marlow Murder Club, which is finally hitting the small screen almost a decade after he first tried to sell the idea.
Nikki Amuka-Bird leads Alibi’s I, Jack
NW star Nikki Amuka-Bird will head the cast of I, Jack, a crime series commissioned by UKTV’s Alibi and written by Unforgotten creator Chris Lang.
Being diplomatic
Writer Ben Richards and executive producer Simon Heath recall their decade-long journey to make The Diplomat, a series set in Barcelona that follows the work of a consul called upon to help British nationals in trouble in Catalonia.