Fake news and the fabrication of these stories by intelligence groups is a major axis of the English series which is now in its second season. Arrest is a BBC One production that can be viewed on Lionsgate+ and its season finale premieres this Friday.

“Britain is cornered: hacked news, manipulated media and meddling in politics. In the UK’s own corrections unit, Inspector Rachel Carey finds herself at the center of a new conspiracy – with a new target. But how can you solve this case, if you can’t even trust your closest associates?” Black glass.

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The plot begins with a soldier named Shaun Emery (played by Callum Turner), who is accused of murder, but has his sentence overturned. But the situation gets complicated when several images captured by security cameras appear on the streets of London, where the case is reactivated. Emery is battling a system that has put him in the spotlight of prosecution and will fight to prove his innocence. That’s when Detective Rachel Carey (played by Holliday Grainger) springs into action, who takes on the case and will face a hard road to find out the truth.

“When I read the script for the first time, I had something Black glass, a sort of futuristic quality to what could happen if surveillance were extended to manipulation. But real life moves so quickly that it now feels less like something from that future and more like today’s social commentary,” said Grainger in the series premiere, adding: “With Arrest one is asking a lot of moral questions about the police, society, and surveillance in the world.”

First season of Arrest It premiered in 2020 and the second installment arrives this year. Both, available on the Lionsgate+ platform, cover themes of the extreme use of technology that often leads to creation fake news.

The second season continues the narrative of the first. Six new chapters include the “invisible” killer, the rise of terrifying technology deepfakerising tensions between the government and Big Tech, and corruption at the heart of the British media.

The series was created and written by Ben Chanan, and among the cast is Holiday Grainger (Hit) as DCI Rachel Carey, along with Ron Perlmann (Hand of God), Ben Miles (demon), Lia William (Crown), Officer Cavan (Last Kingdom), Ginny Holder (5th Street) and Nigel Lindsay (Salisbury poisoning).

In the second season’s new cast, Paapa Essiedu (The London Gang, Project Lazarus) in the role of Isaac Turner MP, a young and successful politician, Indira Varma (Game of Thrones), Andy Nyman (Hanna), Charlie Murphy (Peak Blinders) and Rob Yang (succession).

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