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WEBVestidas de Azul (Dressed in Blue) is the sequel to acclaimed Spanish biopic Vereno, about the life of transgender singer and TV star Christina Ortiz Rodríguez. DQ hears from Montse García Alvarez of producer and distributor Atresmedia about continuing the story and the importance of highlighting underrepresented voices.
Series to Watch: October 2024 | Drama Quarterly
WEB1 day ago · Starring: Heike Makatsch, Axel Stein, Lea Drinda and Leo Simon. Launch date: October 2. Apple TV+’s first German-language original series, this eight-part dark comedy follows Dedo and Carlotta Klatt (Stein and Makatsch), who are desperate to locate their missing 17-year-old daughter, Wanda (Drinda), who disappeared months ago without a …
Channel 4, HBO partner to Get Millie Black | Drama Quarterly
WEB1 day ago · FIRST LOOK: Tamara Lawrance takes the title lead in Get Millie Black, a crime noir series based on Marlon James’s novel of the same name. It will debut on HBO on November 25 and on Channel 4 in 2025. Produced by Motive Pictures (The Woman in The Wall), the “vivid, unflinching and gripping” five-parter stars Lawrance as the inimitable ...
Series to Watch: 2024 - Drama Quarterly
WEBStarring: Josh Tedeku, Jodie Campbell, Myles Kamwendo, Sekou Diaby, Aruna Jalloh, Derek Riddell, Niky Wardley and Daniel Lawrence Taylor. Created by Taylor (Timewasters), this six-part series follows five talented, under-privileged black students from inner-city London as they gain scholarships to St Gilberts, an elite boarding school.
A lesson in suspense | Drama Quarterly
WEB3 days ago · A lesson in suspense. By DQ. September 24, 2024. Share this... Rachel Gesua, senior executive producer at The Teacher producer Clapperboard, breaks down a key scene from the second season of the Channel 5 thriller, in which the protagonist faces the police after tragedy strikes on a school trip. After the …
Not out of the woods yet | Drama Quarterly
WEB3 days ago · Director Clio Barnard joins executive producers Juliette Howell and Harriet Spencer to look back on making the second season of BBC drama Sherwood, building on the themes of season one and finding the delicate balance of character and issues in a state-of-the-nation series. With any hit series that tells a …
Deeper underground - Drama Quarterly
WEB3 days ago · It is directed by Likarion Wainaina (Supa Modo), and features a cast including Melvin Alusa, Melissa Kiplagat, Makena Kahuha, Biko Nyongesa, Foi Wambui, Pauline Komu, Peter Kawa, Dadson Gakenga, Nice Githinji and Chintu Chudasama. Here, series creator Brian Munene (County 49, Crime & Justice) tells DQ six things we need to know about the show ...
Articles - Drama Quarterly
WEBFamily ties. With his first television series, Danish director Thomas Vinterberg tackles themes of climate change and immigration with the story of a family forced to flee their home. He opens up about writing and directing Familier som vores (Families Like Ours), how it began as a thought experiment and his interest in the fragility of humanity.
Coming together - Drama Quarterly
WEBThis is just the first one to be greenlit, she notes, with Channel 4 commissioning this six-part drama that explores the simmering tensions between a group of teenagers and the rise of ‘surveillance parenting’ that can boil over into controlling and toxic behaviour. Newcomer Eva Morgan stars as working-class student Kelly, an accomplished ...
New World order - Drama Quarterly
WEBThe project started at Syfy in 2015 before being given a series order by NBCUniversal sibling USA Network in February 2019, when showrunner David Wiener joined the project. Then in September last year, it was announced that Brave New World would join the roster of NBCU’s upcoming streamer Peacock. Produced by UCP in association with Amblin ...