Rose Leslie and Tom Burke join the cast of Channel 4's Utopia

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“…six weeks of politically terrifying, narratively sophisticated and stylistically idiosyncratic, conspiracy drama for brain users…” Guardian

Principal photography has begun on the second series of Dennis Kelly’s taut conspiracy thriller, Utopia.  Tom Burke (The Hour), Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones), Trystan Gravelle (Mr Selfridge), Michael Maloney (New Worlds) and Ian McDiarmid (Star Wars) join the ensemble cast which includes; Fiona O’Shaughnessy (Jessica Hyde), Alexandra Roach (Becky), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Ian), Adeel Akhtar (Wilson Wilson), Oliver Woollford (Grant), Paul Higgins (Dugdale), Neil Maskell (Arby), Alistair Petrie (Geoff) and Geraldine James (Milner).

The new six part series by Dennis Kelly (Matilda, Black Sea) is again directed by Marc Munden (The Devil’s Whore) and produced by Bekki Wray-Rogers (This is England 88) for Kudos Film and TV, with an original soundtrack by Cristobel Tapia de Veer.  Executive producers are Karen Wilson (Hustle, Spooks), Jane Featherstone (Broadchurch, Life on Mars, The Hour), Dennis Kelly and Marc Munden.

What else can we tell you?  Well nothing actually, otherwise we’d have to send Arby round to kill you.

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