Articles about ZDFneo
Better days
Norwegian series Ølhunden Berit (A Better Man) follows a misogynist online troll who is outed by hackers and forced to live as a woman to avoid public shaming. Creator Thomas Seeberg Torjussen and stars Anders Baasmo Christiansen and Ingrid Unnur Giæver unpack this provocative tale of transformation.
Boarders go back to school with BBC
TRAILER: BBC comedy Boarders returns for its second season on Monday, February 3, continuing the story of five talented black inner-city teens who are transported to an alien world when they gain scholarships to a prestigious boarding school.
Fresh wheat
Generation Z writer-director Ben Wheatley tells DQ about the journey to make his first original television series, his unique approach to filming the six-parter and why the story is more than a zombie horror.
Right of reply
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story recounts the true story of the eponymous model’s kidnap ordeal in 2017 and the subsequent media storm when she was accused of faking the whole thing. Writer Georgia Lester, star Nadia Parkes and Ayling herself recount the making of this factual drama.
Guiding light
While Poppy Cogan was busy adapting Holly Jackson novel A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder for television, the book became a worldwide sensation. She explains how she brought this mystery drama to the screen and reflects on her own journey to creating her first TV series.
BBC looks up A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
TRAILER: Here’s the trailer for A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, a six-part series based on Holly Jackson’s novel of the same name. It debuts in the UK on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer in July.
BBC opens A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
FIRST LOOK: Wednesday star Emma Myers heads the cast of BBC drama A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, which is based on Holly Jackson’s novel of the same name and is due to air later this year.
Lighting the way
Northern Lights star Stephen Jones joins producer Ailish McElmeel to tell DQ how he adapted his own play of the same name for this Irish drama about two grieving people who come to find hope in each other.
Tezel tells all
Aylin Tezel, the star of German thriller Unbroken, reveals how the series mixes elements of crime drama and psycho-thriller to tell the story of a police officer searching for her newborn baby after being kidnapped.
Infectious TV
Real life unexpectedly clashed with fiction in the making of German drama Sløborn, in which a virus ravages an island community. Showrunner Christian Alvart fills DQ in on the eight-part series.
On Decker
The latest German detective to hit TV screens – Dunkelstadt’s Doro Decker – plays by her own rules, as star Alina Levshin and director Asli Özge reveal.
Scent of a killer
Constantin Film producer Oliver Berben tells DQ about making Parfum (Perfume), an inventive German crime drama for ZDFneo and Netflix that uses both the book and film on which the show is based as plot points.