Drama – Page 20
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NewsAmazon UK originals chief defends commissioning process
Tara Erer rejects assertion streamer is ‘slow’ but apologises for any frustrating experiences
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NewsThe Reckoning producer tells how to get factual drama ‘right’
Jeff Pope insists dramatisation of true events must not be gratuitous
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NewsApple TV+ returns to Criminal Record
Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo return to London-set thriller
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NewsJames Graham rails against nostalgia commissioning
MacTaggart lecturer also calls for greater confidence in regional working-class stories
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NewsDrama market to ease in late 2026, says former NBC chief
Warren Littlefield uses Edinburgh keynote to predict slow emergence of scripted green shoots
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NewsJames Graham: MacTaggart lecture in full
‘Speak to American screenwriters or programme-makers, and they are bewildered at our complacency over our PSBs. They wish they had a BBC’
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NewsBigwigs reveal PSB and indie sector concerns
‘There are too many production companies’ say Banijay and Quay Street bosses
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NewsNetflix orders How To Kill Your Family adaptation
Bella Mackie novel heading to streamer with Anya Taylor-Joy starring
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NewsTributes paid to Sister Boniface Mysteries creator
BBCS hails late writer Jude Tindall as ‘master of cosy crime’
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NewsMeghan Lyvers and Phil Edgar-Jones upped in Sky rejig
Execs will now oversee all scripted and unscripted, respectively as pay-TV giant unveils latest original drama Under Salt Marsh
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NewsPartygate indie to flush out sewage scandal for C4
Halcyon Hearts drama Isle of Sh*te (w/t) looks at waste dumped in waterways
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NewsBad Wolf sets Welsh writers programme with top scribes
Russell T Davies, Jack Thorne and Marnie Dickens among mentors for upcoming scheme
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NewsBBC and HBO order Michaela Coel drama
I May Destroy You creator to reunite with Various Artists Limited
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NewsAsh Atalla: I’m baffled that disability has been so left behind
Roughcut chief slams dearth of shows with disabled leads and reveals how the subject is handled in We Might Regret This
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NewsSky Studios adds ex-BBCS drama chief
Priscilla Parish will work on fresh and returning original scripted shows for Mary & George outfit
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NewsWaterloo Road: a model for sustainable drama
Exec producers Leanne Klein and Cameron Roach talk up fiscal responsibility and decry dearth of long-running UK scripted shows
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NewsWaterloo Road secures further double order
BBC1 commissions series six and seven of reimagined Rope Ladder Fiction and Wall to Wall continuing drama
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NewsNetflix returns to The Gentlemen
Streamer orders more crime capers with Guy Ritchie once again at the helm
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NewsAmazon picks up Disney’s Nautilus for UK and Ireland
Live-action series was axed by Disney last year after filming
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NewsSupacell set for second series on Netflix
Creator Rapman says story is planned and he’s ‘ready to go’