Drama Quarterly

Vigdís star Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir and producer Rakel Gardarsdottir outline why they spent a decade trying to make this scripted biopic of Iceland’s first female president and reveal how they overcame the creative challenges posed by making the period drama... 📺 RÚV 🎥 Vesturport Theatre 🌎 REinvent #TV #television #series #drama #biopic #perioddrama #acting #production

Costume designer maja meschede opens up about her work bringing Victorian London to life for Disney+ period drama A Thousand Blows, which saw her partner with actors Malachi Kirby, Erin Doherty and Stephen Graham for this epic saga set in the world of illegal boxing... 📺 The Walt Disney Company 🎥 The Story Collective, Matriarch Productions and Water & Power Productions #TV #television #series #drama #costumedesign #fashion

DQTV: Rise of the Raven stars Gellért K Kádár and Vivien Rujder join showrunner Balázs Lengyel to tell DQ how they transported viewers to 15th century Europe for this epic series that sees a fearless army commander face down an Ottoman invasion... 📺 ORF 🎥 Serendipity Point Films Inc. 🌎 Beta Film GmbH #TV #television #series #drama #historicaldrama #production #acting #showrunning

Still wondering how Netflix drama Adolescence was made? Read our three-part behind-the-scenes report to see how this four-part series moved through development and production... Part One: https://lnkd.in/e4uid96e Part Two: https://lnkd.in/erEFqXYF Part Three: https://lnkd.in/e5SAdJKg

US star Denis Leary speaks to DQ about making FOX TV’s military sitcom Going Dutch, discusses the power of improvisation and reveals the secret to successful comedy... 📺 FOX TV 🎥 Fox Entertainment 🌎 FOX Entertainment Global #TV #comedy #sitcom #filming #production #writing #acting #improv

It’s based on one of Italy’s greatest ever novels – so how did British creatives Richard Warlow and Tom Shankland team up to deliver lavish Italian-language drama Il Gattopardo (The Leopard)? They tell DQ about reuniting for this Netflix series set against the backdrop of revolution in 1860s Sicily... 📺 Netflix 🎥 Moonage Pictures and Indiana Production #TV #television #series #perioddrama #historicaldrama #acting #writing #directing #production

Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Britain, but was she judged for more than her crime? Writer Kelly Jones tells DQ how she wanted to present the “real woman” caught up in tragic events in ITV miniseries A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story... 📺 ITV 🎥 Silverprint Pictures 🌎 ITV Studios #TV #television #series #drama #production #writing #adaptation #truestory #factualdrama

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... 📺 Netflix 🎥 Warp Films, Matriarch Productions and Plan B #television #TV #mustwatch #seriestowatch #writing #directing #acting #postproduction #editing #producing

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... 📺 Netflix 🎥 Warp Films, Plan B and Matriarch Productions #television #TV #series #drama #onetake #oneshot #acting #rehearsals #production #makingof

Get Millie Black screenwriter Marlon James joins stars Tamara Lawrance and Joe Dempsie to dissect this five-part crime noir about a former London cop who returns to her Jamaican homeland, revealing their emotional ties to the story and explaining how the series reassesses its setting... 📺 Channel 4 and HBO 🎥 Motive Pictures #TV #television #drama #writing #acting #production #onlocation #series