Playground · Television
The Undeclared War
Channel 4 · Peacock — Series 2
An up-to-the-minute cyber thriller which pulls back the curtain on the secret world of the UK’s GCHQ just as they’re thrust onto the frontlines of a digital war of the worlds.
Saara Parvin’s first day as a GCHQ intern proves an eventful one when the UK is plunged into an escalating cyber war with Russia. Led by their boss Danny Patrick, Saara and her malware colleagues traverse deepfakes, bot farms, fake news and other unlikely battlefields of modern warfare in order to save the nation from ruin.
CastSimon Pegg · Siân Brooke · Hannah Khalique-Brown · Alex Jennings · Adrian Lester · Mark Rylance
Directed byPeter Kosminsky · Paul McGuigan
Written byPeter Kosminsky · Colin Teevan · Declan Lawn · Adam Patterson · Amelia Spencer · Emily Marcuson · Amy Ng · Roland Walters
Executive ProducersPeter Kosminsky · Noëlette Buckley · Colin Callender · Colin Teevan · Daniel Gratton
Produced byPlayground Entertainment · Stonehenge Films