This time around we're welcoming Neil Cross, the writer best known for creating hugely popular BBC crime drama Luther, starring Idris Elba.
Then came Luther, the show he is still most closely associated with. The first season of the gritty crime drama debuted in 2010, and was an instant hit with viewers and critics alike. Since that first season debuted, four more have followed, plus a 2023 Netflix film, The Fallen Sun. And it certainly sounds like there's more on the way.
Beyond that, he has created shows such as Hard Sun and The Sister, and most recently he's brought us The Iris Affair, a new thriller series starring Niamh Algar and Tom Hollander that has just finished airing on Sky.
The series follows Algar's character, the titular Iris, a genius who is hired by Hollander's Cameron, an entrepreneur, to wake up a powerful machine.
Throughout our chat, Cross spoke about how he "stole Columbo's format" for Luther, his first memory of watching Doctor Who and why he's still sad about the early cancellation of Hard Sun.
"Ages and ages and ages," he said. "I mean, a long time. Iris, one way or another, has been around in my head for years now, six, seven years, I suppose.
"And again, she kind of started like Luther, in that the idea of the character came to me first – the idea of a woman anti-hero. It's an essentially algebraic concept, I hadn't seen one of those before. And if there were to be a woman anti-hero, who would it be? Not even what's she doing, but what's she like?
"So she was a kind of challenge, and the show kind of agglomerated around the idea of Iris. She's the centre of that particular galaxy."
In the meantime, you can also catch up with our previous chats with Mark Gatiss, who spoke all about his work on Doctor Who, Sherlock and his new show Bookish, Harry and Jack Williams, who spoke about their shows The Missing, The Tourist and new Prime Video thriller The Assassin, and Noah Hawley, who spoke about crafting Fargo, Legion and Alien: Earth.
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