He takes a special delight in interrogation and torture. Alistair Petrie as Geoff Lawson, Secretary of State for Health and Michael's boss, an inside man for The Network.Emilia Jones as Alice Ward, a schoolgirl who becomes embroiled in the conspiracy after Grant meets her and hides the Utopia manuscript in her bedroom.Ruth Gemmell as Jen Dugdale, Michael's wife.Geraldine James as Milner, an MI5 agent whom the group turns to for help.Mason and Harley Rooney portray a Young Arby. He is unstable and emotionally disconnected. Neil Maskell as Arby/Piètre, a Network agent searching for Jessica Hyde and the Utopia manuscript.Paul Higgins as Michael Dugdale, a civil servant who finds himself blackmailed by The Network over his affair with a Russian prostitute.He is later framed for a school shooting and forced to go on the run. Originally pretending to be an adult online, he ends up with the Utopia manuscript. Oliver Woollford as Grant Leetham, a troubled 11-year-old boy.He finds his loyalties divided as he learns more about The Network's plans. Adeel Akhtar as Wilson Wilson, a survivalist conspiracy theorist.Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as Ian Johnson, an IT consultant who still lives with his mother.She suffers from the mysterious "Deel's syndrome," for which she has been taking medication. Convinced there is a conspiracy surrounding her father's death connected to the Utopia manuscript, she is determined to find out the truth.
However, after getting their hands on the manuscript, the four – Ian, Becky, Wilson, and Grant – find themselves in over their heads, as a secret organization only known as "The Network" is after it. When one Utopia enthusiast procures the manuscript, he invites four of his friends from an online forum to meet in real life.
A rumoured unpublished sequel supposedly contains further information on future world events. Main article: List of Utopia episodes SeriesĪ community of comic book fans believe the graphic novel The Utopia Experiments predicted several disastrous epidemics, such as mad cow disease (BSE).
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market, Amazon released both of the original series on Amazon Prime on 1 November 2020. Initially nearly inaccessible for viewing on the U.S. Amazon then acquired the rights to the series as of April 2018, and an American version was released on 25 September 2020. HBO had originally planned to make an American version of the show in 2014, but did not produce it due to budget disputes. In October 2014, the series' official Twitter feed stated there would not be a third series. The show has since gained a cult following. A second six-episode series was commissioned by Channel 4 and went into production in late 2013, and was broadcast in July and August 2014. The show was written by Dennis Kelly and starred Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Adeel Akhtar, Paul Higgins, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Alexandra Roach, Oliver Woollford, Alistair Petrie and Neil Maskell. Utopia is a British thriller drama television series that was broadcast on Channel 4 from 15 January 2013 to 12 August 2014.
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