So, it’s a great story with great atmosphere, a range of colourful characters to whom lots of stuff happens and it's even a major bestseller, such as “The Casual Vacancy”. Is that it? Does it follow that great tv drama will ensue?
Does an epic novel automatically make for multi-series, unmissable TV? And do the rules change when the material is autobiographical and the author remains part of the process?
Produced by Kudos for Channel 4 and AMC, innovative drama Humans imagines an alternative present where 'synths' have been developed to mimic their human counterparts.
The worldwide hit TV drama based on the Crawley family and those who serve them is set to close its doors for the final time this September.
In a new promo video, this time set in 1925, of the prospect of not an entirely happy ending.
Downton Abbey is the highest rated UK television drama in the past decade, averaging 11 million viewers over the last five series.
The global phenomenon and BAFTA-winning show is produced by Carnival Films.
HBO’s President of Programming, Michael Lombardo, might have a reputation for being a touch obsessive, but, when it comes to his list of hit shows, it seems that such qualities work just fine.
Filming is set to begin for new BBC modern thriller One Of Us.
The series is written by Harry and Jack Williams, the duo behind gripping drama The Missing.
Set between Edinburgh and The Highlands, the four-part series explores the fragile relationship between the once-close Elliot and Douglas families in the aftermath of two murders.
As a director of photography, Nicola Daley works with drama and documentary directors to enhance their films with creative camera angles, lighting and composition. Here Daley, a graduate of the Australian Film, TV and Radio school, gives her tips on how to break into cinematography.
The dystopian Channel 4 drama Humans has been recommissioned for a second series.
The show is set in an alternative present where Synths – robotic servants who eerily resemble humans – are a must-have household gadget. Over eight episodes, the science fiction drama has explored the consequences of artificial intelligence.
Humans has been the highest rated Channel 4 original drama in over 20 years with its debut launch in June garnering an audience total of 6.1 million.
Brits dominated nominations at the recently announced 2015 Emmys with Game Of Thrones leading the way with 24 nods.
Highly acclaimed period dramas Downton Abbey and Wolf Hall were given three nominations each. The ITV show set in the 1920s is nominated for Outstanding Drama Series while the BBC Tudor drama is selected for Outstanding Limited Series.
Emma Thompson, who starred in the live broadcast of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, is up for Outstanding Actress in a mini-series.
