Inside the return of The Undeclared War with Hannah Khalique-Brown, Colin Teevan and Colin Callender

Four years after Channel 4’s cyber-thriller The Undeclared War first aired, the series returns with a new writer and director, a one-shot opener and a story that heightens the political intrigue – as star Hannah Khalique-Brown, writer Colin Teevan and executive producer Colin Callender reveal. When political thriller The Undeclared War returns for its second season, it is with a dazzling one-shot sequence that sees the camera glide from a communications room filled with video and radar screens to busy corridors and an open-plan office where dozens of staff are standing at their computer terminals under muted lighting. The immersive nine-minute opening reintroduces Simon Pegg’s Danny Patrick, director of operations at GCHQ (the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters), in the moments immediately after the end of season one and throws viewers straight back into a geopolitical crisis that threatens the future of the country. In S1, the British government accused Russia of attempting to subvert democracy by interfering in elections after a cyber-attack exposes its political institutions and telecoms – an event described as the equivalent of “an armed attack… an act of war.” Diplomatic relations between the UK and the US were also suspended after Russia’s FSB (Federal Security Service) stole American intelligence data from GCHQ. It concluded with hacker Vadim Trusov, who had been coerced into working for the FSB, sharing top-secret Russian files with GCHQ’s Saara Parvin, just as a radar picked up Russian aircraft entering UK airspace. Picking up from that exact moment, the story resumes as … Continue reading Inside the return of The Undeclared War with Hannah Khalique-Brown, Colin Teevan and Colin Callender →