Being produced in the very early stages of heavy-ion collisions, open heavy flavour and quarkonia have always been considered among the most valuable tools to investigate the formation and the properties of the plasma of quarks and gluons. The high precision data now available from RHIC and LHC experiments confirm the central role of these observables, on one side allowing their study over a wide kinematic range and on the other opening up searches for new particles or new measurements previously not yet within reach.

In these proceedings, I'll present an overview of the most recent experimental results on open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production presented at the ``10th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions'' and I'll discuss the comparison of these measurements with state-of-the art theory calculations.