The Last Enemy (TV series)

The Last Enemy (TV series)

Infobox Television
show_name = The Last Enemy


caption =
genre = Drama
Thriller
Science fiction
Adventure
Mystery
picture_format = PAL
runtime = 60 minute episodes
writer = Peter Berry
producer = Gub Neal
director = Iain B. MacDonald
starring = Benedict Cumberbatch
Anamaria Marinca
Max Beesley
Robert Carlyle
Eva Birthistle
Geraldine James
Tom Fisher
James Lance
San Shella
David Harewood
Christopher Fulford
Paul Higgins
Nick Sidi
Rebecca Eaton (for WGBH)
composer = Magnus Fiennes
country = UK
language = English
executive_producer = Patrick Irwin
Justin Thomson-Glover
Adrian Bate
location = London, UK
camera = John Hembrough
runtime = 85 minutes (Episode 1); 60 minutes (Episodes 2-5)
network = BBC
first_aired = February 17, 2008
last_aired = present
num_series = 1
num_episodes = 5
website = http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/lastenemy/
production_website = http://www.box-tv.co.uk/
imdb_id = 0966151
tv_com_id =

"The Last Enemy" is a BBC TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and featuring Robert Carlyle and Max Beesley which first aired on 17 February, 2008.

Plot

Set in a near-future United Kingdom beset by terrorism and illegal immigration, it features the introduction of "TIA" (Total Information Awareness), a centralised database that can be used to track and monitor anybody effectively by putting all available government information in one place. The story deals with a political cover-up centred around a rogue batch of vaccine which seems to be causing a deadly virus, as well as the moral, social and privacy concerns of such a system in a post-9/11 world. The story is told through the eyes of a mathematical genius who is portrayed as a recluse and showing some signs of OCD. The final episode then has a plot twist in which this apparent virus is shown to be in fact an ethnicity-specific side-effect of an experiment in producing an internal, injected and unfakeable bio-tag, a side-effect which affects Arabs but not Caucasians and so (to avoid international scandal) has had to be shut down.

Viewing Figures

Locations

*In episode 1, Stephen meets Professor Moreton at Horse Guards Parade and talks to him as they walk down to The Mall.
*The mass skating scene in episode 4 took place outside Battersea Power Station.
*Michael's flat is in Cholmeley Park, Highgate, London N6.
*Much of the action was filmed in Bucharest, Romania. Romanian actors filled several minor roles.
*The couple's final departure is from Liverpool Street station.

Distribution

"The Last Enemy" will be shown in the United States on PBS stations on "Masterpiece Contemporary." It will be the first program aired on the new anthology series. The five episodes are scheduled for October 5, 12, 19, 26 and November 2, 2008.

References

External links

*bbc.co.uk|id=lastenemy|title=The Last Enemy
*imdb title|id=0966151|title=The Last Enemy


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