Drama Features – Page 16
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FeaturesEmmys spotlight: Steve McQueen on Small Axe
Writer and director on how the films – about the experience of West Indian immigrants in London – achieved unexpected global resonance
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Behind The ScenesTogether: Love in the time of Covid
Shot in just 10 days, with a cast of three and a single location, BBC2’s lockdown drama aired just four months after being greenlit
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FeaturesFocus Group: What do people misunderstand about a director’s role?
Our four panellists on the reality of being a TV director
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FeaturesPaapa Essiedu: honouring Michaela Coel
I May Destroy You actor on the huge responsibility he felt to honour the writing of his friend
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Behind The ScenesThe A List, Netflix
Navigating lockdown and the wild Welsh weather made for a stressful shoot
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FeaturesHow It’s A Sin became C4’s most-binged show ever
Russell T Davies & Nicola Shindler on how the drama offered a fresh take on the 1980s HIV and Aids crisis
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FeaturesGallery - Together
Selection of images of the single Shoebox Films and Sonia Friedman Productions drama for BBC2
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FeaturesHow Casualty took the lead on representation
The team behind a groundbreaking episode with a deaf director, writers and actors discuss how it came about and what it means for the industry
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Behind The ScenesAnne Boleyn: Bringing history up to date
Channel 5’s ambitious new original drama aims to reset the narrative around Henry VIII’s second wife
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FeaturesGlued to the Screen: ZeroZeroZero
The simple premise of following a cocaine shipment gives us three brilliantly realised universes in one cohesive story, says Katherine Butler
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FeaturesBest single drama: Elizabeth Is Missing
‘A clever and powerful study of the effects of dementia transcended by a brilliant performance from one of the country’s greatest actors’
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FeaturesBest soap or continuing drama: Coronation Street
‘A brilliantly powerful, climactic moment that resonated well beyond the genre’
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FeaturesIn Conversation: The Beast Must Die
Writer Gaby Chiappe and director Dome Karukoski recall producing BritBox drama under lockdown
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FeaturesBest drama series: I May Destroy You
‘Blisteringly original storytelling that excelled in every area’
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Behind The ScenesPlot twist: making The Pact
The pandemic placed production of our BBC drama in peril but strange new ways of working saw us through, says Pete McTighe
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Behind The ScenesHow we put Domina on trial
The coronavirus cut our Sky swords ‘n’ sandals drama by two episodes and forced us into re-writes for an unexpected courtroom drama, says Simon Burke
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Behind The ScenesThe Beast Must Die: Revenge is sweet
The team behind BritBox’s original drama on how colour-blind casting & a gender switch bring a different dimension to their novel adaptation
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Behind The ScenesSmart budgeting for British sci-fi
Creating Intergalactic for Sky 1 was a mix of big ambitious and clear boundaries, says Kieron Hawkes
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Behind The ScenesDreaming Whilst Black: from web to BBC1
Our Comedy Slice adaptation of Adjani Salmon’s online hit shows people of colour given senior positions create brilliant programmes, says Gina Lyons