The Art of Imagination

Joe Flanigan’s starring role as John Sheppard in the beloved space exploration series Stargate Atlantis has brought viewers joy for decades. The show ran for five incredible, action-packed years, often crossing over with the ten-year hit  Stargate SG-1 during their overlapping seasons. The Stargate franchise means a lot to many people, with beautiful production design, fantastic characters and sto...

Sian Reese-Williams is a constant presence in the world of British and Welsh-language dark drama, from her lead role on the internationally successful crime noir series Craith/Hidden to her new spinoff of the mystery Y Golau/The Light in the Hall , titled Y Golau: Dŵr/Still Waters , which sees her character from season one take a personal interest in an unresolved mystery that has haunted the regi...

<p>Simon Evans is the writer and director of the BBC's <i>Staged</i>, which ran for three seasons, filmed almost entirely over Zoom during the pandemic in a revolutionary approach to filmmaking. The series starred David Tennant, Michael Sheen, and Simon himself alongside a revolving door of guest appearances from an incredible lineup of actors such as Dame Judi Dench, bringin...

Mali Tudno Jones is an accomplished Welsh actor and writer with a long background in both theatre and film. She received a BAFTA Cymru nomination for her performance as the wild Nia in the murder mystery series 35 Diwrnod/35 Days and was most recently Linda the chaplain in the intense prison drama Bariau/Inside . I've been keeping up with her work ever since seeing her as Rachel, the pathologist a...

Gwydion Rhys is a wonderful actor and singer who has spent his life performing on stage and later screen, playing a variety of guest and supporting roles in major Welsh-language and bilingual TV series such as Y Gwyll/Hinterland and 35 Days alongside leading roles in theatre, such as Alan Turing in To Kill a Machine . Most recently, he was prime suspect Ryan in the murder mystery series Cleddau/Th...

Charlaine Harris is one of the biggest names in dark fantasy and cozy mysteries, responsible for an impressive number of long-running series since the early 90s, including the smash hit Southern Vampire Mysteries , which were adapted into HBO's critically acclaimed show True Blood . Her first mystery series, Aurora Teagarden , has been adapted into 21 beloved TV films at last count, and her mo...

Sion Ifan is a fantastic Welsh/English bilingual actor and director whose latest works behind the camera include the intense 6-part murder mystery Cleddau/The One That Got Away and the fun family sci-fi show Y Goleudy/The Lighthouse . He also directed half the episodes of Creisis/Crisis , a great emotional drama about mental health, and is one of the directors on the upcoming series Still Waters ....

Siôn Alun Davies is a talented Welsh/English bilingual actor from Cardiff, best known internationally as the likeable Detective Owen Vaughan from the crime noir series Craith/Hidden . Most recently, he joined the cast of prison drama Bariau/Inside for season 2 as the antagonistic new senior corrections officer Simon Firth, and played Jamie in the intense murder mystery series Cleddau/The One That...

John Peel is an accomplished and beloved author who has published an extraordinary number of books over the decades, going all the way back to the original Doctor Who series, which he has written many tie-in books for. He’s also done novelizations of and tie-ins for plenty of other major franchises, including Star Trek and James Bond . However, to me, he will always be one of the top old-school ki...