Creator Alice Seabright, executive producer Tally Garner and stars Erin Doherty, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Billy Howle, Jack Farthing and Brandon Micheal Hall give an in depth behind the scenes look at the new BBC One drama Chloe and discuss what to expect from the new drama. The event was hosted by Rhianna Dhillon.
Writers Jeff Pope and Neil McKay, the duo behind The Moorside and Appropriate Adult, will shed new light on the story by shifting the perspective to the friends and families of the four young men who were killed by Port.
The police investigation into the deaths of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor was widely condemned, and forced their relatives to take the case into their own hands.
The series will explore the powerful reign and fall from grace of Gordon, the soap star and Queen of the Midlands.
Gordon became one of the most famous people in Britain playing the flame-haired widow Meg Richardson in the long-running soap opera, Crossroads.
But in 1981, at her and the show’s peak of success, she was fired without warning nor any explanation, despite appearing on it for 18 years.
When sunbathing on her hotel room balcony, Jo (Hawes) hears gunshots ring out across the complex. The gunmen, hellbent on revenge, instantly turn her dream holiday with family and friends into a waking nightmare.
As the hotel staff and clientele are forced to make rash life-or-death decisions, the consequences will last long after the final shots are fired.
Meet the team behind the award-winning series On the Edge, entirely written and directed by new talent.
Philip Trethowan and Ben Bickerton from Blacklight discuss the 4Stories initiative and Samantha O'Rourke and Nadira Amrani share their experience of it making the film Mincemeat.
“Soap is a brilliant training ground but it’s also a place to tell prime-time stories in the most powerful way,” he said during his drama masterclass.
Akhtar, though, was determined to write his own scripts. His first effort, a radio play, won the BBC’s Alfred Bradley Bursary Award for new Northern writers. He went on to write three afternoon plays for Radio 4.
“I realised early on in my career that all the different parts of my identity – being Northern, working-class, Pakistani and Muslim – are an asset because people aren’t telling those stories,” he said.
Writer and story consultant Furquan Akhtar discusses his experiences writing for dramas such as Wolfe and The Bay, why the soaps are excellent training grounds for writers starting out and how his identity as a Pakastani Muslim living in Northern England is a valuable asset when it comes to original storytelling.
Written by George Kay, the four-part drama will explore the death of former Russian Federal Security Services and KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was found dead from polonium poisoning in November 2006.
The murder led to one of the most dangerous and testing investigations in the history of the Metropolitan Police.
The drama highlights the painstaking work of the Scotland Yard officers who dedicated ten years of their lives to discover who was responsible.
Am dram group The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society put on another series of doomed performances.
The new series will be set and made in Greater Manchester and co-produced by Wall To Wall and Rope Ladder Fiction.
Waterloo Road originally aired on the BBC from 2006 to 2015, during which time it became one of the UK’s most popular and longest-running TV dramas.
With the pandemic came greater awareness of the challenges teachers, parents and pupils face that have become even more pronounced due to lockdown restrictions. The new series will explore these important issues and more.
