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Interview with Alex Jennings (DAVID NEAL)

What is David’s story in “The Undeclared War”? AJ: David is the Head of GCHQ, and that post is traditionally – which I didn’t know before filming this – a civil service role and I think on average, people do five or six years in the post. The head of GCHQ is the conduit between the really brainy

8 Jul 22 Interview

Interview with Maisie Richardson-Sellers (KATHY FREEMAN)

What’s Kathy’s story in The Undeclared War? MRS: In “The Undeclared War”, Kathy is a cyber-analyst, and she comes from the NSA – which is the American counterpart to GCHQ, and she’s on attachment in the UK for two years. She comes from a military background and has decided that rather than taking

8 Jul 22 Interview

Interview with Simon Pegg (DANNY PATRICK)

What’s the story of “The Undeclared War”? SP: “The Undeclared War” is about a young student called Saara Parvin who takes a work experience placement at GCHQ at a time when there’s immense upheaval in her own life – and a terrifying geopolitical crisis evolves while she’s there which she becomes

8 Jul 22 Interview

Interview with Hannah Khalique-Brown (SAARA PARVIN)

Tell us Saara’s story in The Undeclared War HKB: The Undeclared War finds Saara when she’s a computer science student at Imperial College London, and she’s just finished her second year when she takes a placement at GCHQ. She joins their malware department for a year – like work experience – and on

8 Jul 22 Interview

Interview with Colin Callender (executive producer)

What is the story of The Undeclared War? CC: This is a peeling back of the veil of on a world that we read about in the headlines, but we really don’t understand. What “The Undeclared War” really does is it takes us inside GCHQ which is the nerve centre of cyber warfare – and it puts a face on all

8 Jul 22 Interview

Interview: Peter Kosminsky (creator, writer, director & executive producer)

What is the story of The Undeclared War? PK: The Undeclared War is fiction but based very heavily on research carried out over a number of years. The story is of a young trainee who arrives part way through her university career to do a work experience placement at GCHQ. She’s a talented computer

8 Jul 22 News Release

New four-part travelogue series from Open Mike Productions for Channel 4 starring Chris McCausland

Channel 4 have commissioned Open Mike Productions, the award-winning production company behind ‘Live At The Apollo’ and ‘The Last Leg’, to produce a brand new comedy travelogue series starring comedian Chris McCausland. The Wonders of the World I Can't See (w/t) is a 4x60 series that takes Chris across the globe to explore some of the world’s most iconic, unforgettable world landmarks, but in a new and unique way that discovers things the ordinary traveller might miss.

7 Jul 22 News Release

Katherine Ryan and Joe Wilkinson to seek out the best bargain holidays for Channel 4

In Joe and Katherine’s Bargain Holidays, the duo embarks on a relentless pursuit of bargainous getaways, both in the UK and further afield

7 Jul 22 News Release

CHANNEL 4 TO SUPPORT INDIES IN DRIVE TO INCREASE TALENT FROM UNDER REPRESENTED GROUPS

Channel 4 is partnering with TV Talent company Gritty Talent to help indies build more diverse senior teams, in the wake of the broadcaster’s new Commissioning Guidelines published last month. The new requirements are part of the legacy of Channel 4’s The Black to Front Project to help transform on