‘The Capture’ Renewed For Season 3 At BBC
deadline.comBBC surveillance thriller The Capture is returning for a third season. The Heyday Television-produced series will take up the story 12 months after Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger) broadcast a live deepfake of a government minister to the nation, exposing the UK intelligence service’s clandestine video manipulation programme known as Correction.
Amidst an inquiry into the unlawful use of Correction, Carey has become acting head of SO15, determined to regain the public’s trust in surveillance technology through a new Operation Veritas camera system.
Ben Chanan’s thriller is boarded in Season 3 by Killian Scott (Strike, Kaos, Dublin Murders), who joins the likes of Indira Varma as BBC Newsnight presenter Khadija Khan, Ben Miles as Danny Hart, Lia Williams as Gemma Garland, Ginny Holder as DI Nadia Latif, Ron Perlman as CIA agent Frank Napier, Nigel Lindsay as DSI Tom Kendricks, Tessa Wong as DC Chloe Tan and Daisy Waterstone as Abigail Carey.
The series has been one of the BBC’s biggest drama shows over the past few years and Season 2 aired in the coveted BBC Bank Holiday August slot when Paapa Essiedu joined the cast.
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