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Still from Fault Line — The inquiry into the collapse begins with one leaked file.

Fault Line locks a fifty-episode order for its inquiry season

The collapse thriller's second season will run as a single continuous public inquiry — one hearing room, fifty days, fifty episodes.

V4Vertical Staff · 1 min read · 2 min listen

Still from Night Shift — A&E at 3am, one corridor, every episode a single shift.

Interviews

“You are writing for a screen someone is holding”: the creator of Night Shift on portrait-first drama

Yemi Adesanya built a hospital series around one corridor, one shift and a lead nurse the camera never leaves. She explains why the phone changes the writing before it changes the shot.

Ren Ito · 2 min read

Still from The Understudy — She knows every line. Tonight she finds out why.

Features

The grammar of the ninth wall

Portrait framing didn't remove the fourth wall — it added a new one, centimetres from the viewer's face. The strongest vertical drama is being written against it.

Tomi Adebayo · 2 min read

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