Behind The Cry

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Matti Laine and Marja Pyykkö, writer and director of The Paradise, talk about the crime drama set in a Spanish coastal town with a large Finnish ex-pat population, a copro from MRP Matila Röhr Productions for YLE and Mediapro.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Tony Tackaberry, CEO of Lion TV, discusses the way in which the All3Media-owned prodco tweaked its long-running Discovery gameshow format Cash Cab for Bravo, while expanding its activities in true crime and high-end docs during a period of upheaval in US cable.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Preethi Mavahalli and Koby Adom, exec producer and director of new BBC drama Noughts + Crosses, discuss their adaptation of Malorie Blackman's young-adult book series about first love in an alternate world where racial stereotypes are reversed. Produced by Mammoth Screen, Roc Nation and Participant Media, the series is sold by ITV Studios.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: BBC Studios director of content Ralph Lee explains how the UK public broadcaster’s commercial arm has been stepping up its third-party production slate with series such as Good Omens for Amazon as well as upcoming UKTV crime drama We Hunt Together and Smothered for Ireland’s RTÉ.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Writer Samantha Strauss, See-Saw Films Australia exec producer Rachel Gardner and head of television Jamie Laurenson discuss The End, a new comedy drama for Foxtel and Sky Atlantic about a 70-year-old woman whose failed suicide attempt prompts her daughter to send her to a retirement villa on the Gold Coast.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Writer Sarah Williams, exec producer Kate Bartlett and director Louise Hooper discuss Flesh & Blood, their new Silverprint Pictures thriller for ITV about three adult siblings whose recently bereaved mother finds new love with a man they do not trust.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Anthony Horowitz and Jill Green, CEO of Eleventh Hour Films, discuss their upcoming TV version of the author’s Alex Rider series of young adult spy novels – the first project Sony Pictures Entertainment has fully funded without a platform attached.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Cate Blanchett, co-creator, exec producer and star of Stateless, and Alastair McKinnon, MD of NBCUniversal International Studios-owned producer Matchbox Pictures, discuss their new ABC drama about four strangers whose lives collide at an immigration detention centre in the middle of the Australian desert.