Drama Features
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Behind The ScenesHow The Death of Bunny Munro set out to show the value of dark, complex stories
Clerkenwell Films’ Petra Fried and Emily Harrison on commissioner and audience appetite for uncomfortable, ambiguous tales
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FeaturesFleur Feeney: Such Brave Girls, BBC3
‘The show is gleefully unpalatable and blindingly funny with an unrivalled joke count and I’d recommend it to anyone’
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FeaturesRichard Middleton: Severance, Apple TV
‘This Apple TV drama looks and feels like something totally alien to pretty much everything else out there’
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FeaturesAlice Redman: 7/7: The London Bombings, BBC1
‘It is a testament to the power of documentary storytelling.’
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FeaturesHeather Fallon: Big Boys, Channel 4
‘It’s a beautiful tribute to a friend and a gentle reminder of how joyful life can be’
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FeaturesPaul Weatherley: This City is Ours, BBC1
‘It’s incredibly tense, very bingeable, and kept me on tenterhooks throughout its eight episodes’
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FeaturesImproving outlook: How Nordic duo battled a scripted slowdown
Relying on multiple international partners has helped Icelandic and Finnish creatives maintain production despite global contraction
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Behind The ScenesHow we tackled the scale and scales of The War Between the Land and the Sea
Bad Wolf executive producer Joel Collins on making a globe-spanning Doctor Who spinoff for the BBC
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FeaturesFirst look: Rivals, Disney+
Second series of Happy Prince adaptation, set in world of 1980s TV industry, airs in 2026
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FeaturesGallery: Cooper & Fry, 5
Selection of images from the Clapperboard crime drama series, based on Stephen Booth’s bestselling novels
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FeaturesGallery: Summerwater, Channel 4
Selection of images from the six-part Freedom Scripted series set against the backdrop of a remote loch-side Scottish holiday cabin park
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Behind The ScenesTreating trauma: How Bataclan survivors sparked hope on screen
Oscar winner Jean-Xavier de Lestrade on turning the true story of hostages from the 2015 Paris terror attacks into a hit miniseries
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FeaturesFirst look: The Night Manager, BBC1/Prime Video
Series two of hit drama starring Tom Hiddleston
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FeaturesSwitching The Witcher: the monster show returns
On the set of Netflix’s fantasy epic, execs open up about replacing stars, creating visceral worlds and why battles are like ballroom dancing
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FeaturesGallery: The Ridge, BBC2
Selection of images from the six-part drama about a woman who moves to New Zealand, leaving behind a professional life in tatters in Scotland
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The Broadcast InterviewInterview: Bad Wolf enters a new phase
How the Red Eye indie is adapting its budgets, but not its ambitions, in the face of funding challenges
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FeaturesCommissioners look for safe bets amid TV drama downturn
Leading TV executives on how they are navigating a changed landscape
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FeaturesMaking sense of microdrama mania
US demand is soaring for this nascent format and it will be a frequent topic at Mipcom, but what’s the reality behind the headlines?