TV features – Page 6
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FeaturesEmmys spotlight: From masks to racial tragedy, the uncanny prescience of ‘Watchmen’
Damon Lindelof and Nicole Kassell confront America’s volatile political and cultural landscape.
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FeaturesEmmys spotlight: Fiona Shaw on the secrets of her ‘Killing Eve’ spymaster
Irish actress Fiona Shaw reveals why she relishes her role as inscrutable spymaster Carolyn Martens in ’Killing Eve’.
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FeaturesCanneseries confirms October 2020 dates
Third edition was to have unfolded alongside cancelled MIPTV.
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FeaturesEmmys spotlight: Why ‘The Morning Show’ is more than just the first great #MeToo drama
Showrunner Kerry Ehrin, director Mimi Leder and Gugu Mbatha-Raw speak to Screen about the Apple TV+ drama.
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FeaturesMichaela Coel: “TV is unforgiving - but I’m built for this”
The Chewing Gum creator dug deep to channel her experience of sexual assault into her BBC1 drama I May Destroy You.
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Features‘Fleabag’ collaborator Vicky Jones talks going on the ‘Run’ with new HBO show
Screen speaks to ‘Run’ showrunner and Phoebe Waller-Bridge collaborator Vicky Jones.
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FeaturesJapan’s Nippon TV taps into global demand for female-oriented dramas
Japanese broadcaster Nippon TV has found a global groove selling scripted formats for social-issue dramas.
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FeaturesHow independent TV studios are thriving in a fractured market
The boom in scripted series has created ample opportunity for independent television studios operating in Hollywood.
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Features‘Deutschland 83’ co-creator Anna Winger on her new Netflix series ‘Unorthodox’
Unorthodox is about a young woman who rejects her life and marriage in the Satmar Hasidic Jewish community of New York to start again among the millennials of multi-cultural Berlin.
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FeaturesThe Centrepiece interview: Studiocanal UK’s Nicola Shindler on swimming against the tide from TV to film
Shindler is also head of her own TV production company, Red.
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FeaturesHow the UK’s House Productions convinced a Greek arthouse filmmaker to make Berlinale Series title ‘Trigonometry’
Athina Rachel Tsangari directs five episodes of ‘Trigonometry’ for Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell’s House Productions.
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FeaturesBerlinale Series’ new head Julia Fidel on her bold first selection
This year’s titles include Freud, Stateless with Cate Blanchett and Trigonometry directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari.
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Features‘Back To Life’ could be new ‘Fleabag’, says Showtime chief
Jana Winograde optimistic about content opportunities within ViacomCBS.
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FeaturesHow ZDF’s Margrit Stärk is working to boost the number of female directors working in Germany
Germany’s Si Star prize for female directors is in its third year.
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FeaturesTobias Menzies talks playing Prince Philip in ‘The Crown’: “A pretty hard person to get a grasp on“
Menzies plays Philip Mountbatten-Windsor in the third season of the Netflix show.
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Features‘Watchmen’ director Nicole Kassell on creating the distinct visuals for HBO series
The HBO-and DC Comics-produced series is set more than 30 years after the events of the comic books.
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FeaturesMipcom preview: how can a high-end drama break through in a dynamic global TV market?
Screen reports on the strategies of several leading international distributors.
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FeaturesFive hot dramas at Mipcom 2019
Buzzy projects this year at the French TV event include Swedish thriller Blinded and the highly anticipated TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People.
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FeaturesHow Southeast Europe’s emerging writers and talents are breaking through
Screen profiles five emerging writing and directing talents from Southeast Europe.
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FeaturesEmmys 2019: Jean-Marc Vallée talks learning to work with a showrunner on ‘Sharp Objects’
Sharp Objects director Jean-Marc Vallée discusses the challenges of making the move from film to television with the multiple Emmy-nominated show.