All Drama articles – Page 295
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FeaturesHot Picks: Intersection
Turkey has quietly become one of the fastest-growing exporters of drama outside of the US and UK.
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FeaturesHot Picks: The Writer
Israel is known for high-stakes political thrillers such as Prisoners Of War (remade as US hit Homeland), False Flag and Hostages.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Hooten & The Lady
Hooten & The Lady is an ambitious adventure series, described as ‘Moonlighting set in the jungle’, or an ‘updated take on Romancing The Stone’. Just don’t call it the new Indiana Jones.
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FeaturesHot Picks: The Secret Agent
The latest example of BBC1’s commitment to high-quality drama is a glossy adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel The Secret Agent.
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FeaturesHot Picks: The Secret
What could make two pillars of the community – a well-respected dentist and a Sunday school teacher – ditch their normal lives to become cold-blooded killers? That’s the question posed by Hat Trick’s three-part drama for ITV, The Secret.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Victoria
It seems unfair that Queen Victoria has become cemented in 21st century minds as the double-chinned, cranky looking sourpuss depicted in pictures of the time.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Marcella
The meteoric rise of dark Scandinavian dramas including The Killing and Borgen paved the way for Swedish writer Hans Rosenfeldt to create global smash The Bridge in 2013.
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NewsC4 loses rights to Black Mirror
Channel 4 has lost a bidding war with Netflix for the right to premiere the third series of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror in the UK.
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Behind The ScenesMaigret, ITV
For ITV’s new Maigret adaptation, Ealing Studios recreated 1950s Paris in Budapest. Olly Grant met the cast and crew on set.
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RatingsThe Night Manager triumphs for BBC1
SUNDAY: The Night Manager held off strong competition from ITV’s documentary about the Queen to bow out with its biggest audience of the series.
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NewsLucky Man to return after first series finds fortune
Stan Lee’s Lucky Man is to return to Sky 1 for a second series after the comic book thriller became the biggest drama in the channel’s 34-year history.
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RatingsThe A Word triumphs for BBC1
TUESDAY: BBC1’s autism drama The A Word triumphed in the 9pm slot, securing more than double the audience of any of its competitors.
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NewsDavid Ellender leaves Slingshot Global Media
David Ellender has left Slingshot Global Media, the international drama firm that he established in 2014, according to reports.
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FeaturesDrama indies take centre stage
Insatiable overseas appetite for English-language drama and the consequent flow of international money into UK production were the big themes of 2015.
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NewsSky Atlantic orders Kudos crime thriller
Sky Atlantic has ordered its latest big-budget drama – a crime drama set in the Canadian mountains produced by Kudos.
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NewsPeter Bowker plots WW2 epic
Peter Bowker is eyeing up a multi-lingual World War II drama as his next BBC project – and plans to go deeper into society’s attitudes toward autism in a second series of The A Word.
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RatingsThe X-Files bows out with average of 2m
MONDAY: The X-Files came to an end on a low for Channel 5 – but the reboot easily outperformed the channel’s slot average.
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NewsSky acquires E4's Nashville
Sky Living has poached country music soap Nashville, which previously aired on E4.
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NewsRed to produce conspiracy thriller for ITV
ITV has commissioned a conspiracy thriller which unpicks a mysterious murder investigation from the makers of Happy Valley.
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RatingsNight Manager dents Indian Summers
SUNDAY: The Night Manager dropped to a series low, but its audience remained resolutely above 6m and it damaged the return of Indian Summers on Channel 4.