The Capture nears BBC return

FIRST LOOK: Paapa Essiedu will return alongside Holliday Grainger in season three of BBC surveillance thriller The Capture, which is set to air this spring.

Essiedu reprises his role as Isaac Turner after helping to expose Correction in the previous season. Grainger leads the cast as Rachel Carey, with other cast members including Indira Varma as BBC News presenter Khadija Khan, Hugh Quarshie as Commissioner Cameron Yates, Linus Roache as Colonel Figgis, Ben Miles as Danny Hart, Lia Williams as Gemma Garland, Ginny Holder as DI Nadia Latif, Ron Perlman as CIA agent Frank Napier, Nigel Lindsay as DSI Tom Kendricks, Tessa Wong as DC Chloe Tan.

Joining the cast are Killian Scott, Jonathan Aris, Joe Dempsie, Andrew Buchan and Amanda Drew. Daisy Waterstone returns as Abigail Carey.

Season three picks up 12 months since Rachel Carey broadcast a live deepfake of a government minister to the nation, exposing the UK intelligence service’s clandestine video manipulation programme known as Correction. Amidst an inquiry into the unlawful use of Correction, Carey has become Acting Commander of Counter Terrorism Command, determined to regain the public’s trust in surveillance technology through the new Operation Veritas camera system.

Then a brutal and exceptionally well-coordinated act of terror is aimed right at the heart of the British establishment that leaves behind just one witness. The more Carey investigates, the deeper she is drawn into an unfolding geopolitical crisis that infects the British political establishment, the security services, and the media.

The series is created, written and executive produced by Ben Chanan. It is produced by Heyday Television – part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group – for BBC iPlayer and BBC One.

It is directed by Anthony Philipson, Johnny Allan and Ben Chanan, and produced by Derek Ritchie, who is an executive producer. For Heyday Television, executive producers are David Heyman, Rosie Alison and Sue Gibbs, Tom Coan for Universal International Studios, Rebecca Ferguson for the BBC and Ben Chanan.

The series will be distributed by NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution.

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