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a struggling mum stuck in a stale marriage. British stars Rhianne Barreto ( No Escape ) and Nina Toussaint-White ( Witness No 3 ) also feature.

Other actors include Meera Syal, who is bringing her radio show Mrs Sidhu Investigates to the small screen, and Irish breakout star India Mullen, who is fronting mystery drama The Vanishing Triangle

Among the directors to appear in the DQ100 are Sex Education ’s Ben Taylor for his upcoming Disney+ series The Ballad of Renegade Nell ; Tinge Krishnan for another Disneybound series, A Thousand Blows ; and Bafta winner Helen Walsh and her six-part drama The Gathering . Rising Danish filmmaker Jonas Risvig makes the list for his breakout series Drenge ( Boys ), alongside Warwick Thornton ( Firebite ), Shane Meadows ( The Gallows Pole ), Jocelyn Moorhouse ( Savage River ) and Dennie Gordon ( Last Light ).

Andrea Gibb, who is adapting Andrew O’Hagan novel Mayflies for the BBC, features on our list of writers to watch, alongside Joe Murtagh ( The Woman in the Wall ), Daf James ( Lost Boys & Fairies ), Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James ( Get Millie Black ) and Sara Collins ( The Confessions of Frannie Langton ).

Other writers on the list include Abi Morgan, Cash Carraway, Ainslie Clouston and Øystein Karlsen, who is following up Norwegian breakout series Exit with So Long, Marianne , the story of two lonely people who fall in love. Saskia Noort, the Dutch ‘Queen of Suspense,’ makes the list for her debut TV series Something Stupid , while Jacquelin Perske is behind the highly anticipated adaptation of Heather Morris’s The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Among the trends and trailblazers highlighted in the DQ100 is the spate of sports biopics, tech thrillers and fantasy epics viewers have enjoyed this year, while Silent Witness and Doctor Who were among the shows that enjoyed on-screen reunions. Our list also recognises the trailblazing work of Triple C, which is leading the fight for increased representation of disabled creatives on and off screen.

Looking ahead to 2023 and beyond, our series to look out for include Black Snow, an Australian cold-case mystery drama, and Platform 7, a haunting British thriller based on Louise Doughty’s novel. Festning Norge (The Fortress) is a dystopian Norwegian drama set in a future where the country has isolated itself from the rest of the world by a huge wall, and Oderbruch is a German mystery drama about two cops called upon to investigate the discovery of numerous bodies in a Polish border town. Then there’s Fleishman is in Trouble, in which a star-studded cast – including Jesse Eisenberg and Claire Danes – bring to life Taffy Broadesser-Akner’s novel about a man recently separated from his wife and trying to figure out his place in the world.

With more drama to watch than ever, the DQ100 highlights some of the best new shows to tune in for and the people involved in bringing them to the screen. These are our ones to watch. DQ