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‘Our identity is being stolen’: survivors plead for halt to dramas about Grenfell

Residents and members of bereaved families call on BBC and National Theatre to scrap productions

The Guardian - UK

Almost 2,000 sign petition in four days calling for BBC show to be scrapped

"It makes me sick to my stomach"

Wales Online

Kosminsky to wait for Grenfell final report before writing scripts for BBC drama

The writer and director wants to reflect its findings and the response of those impacted by the fire into his three-part series.

The Independent UK

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Grenfell Tower fire tragedy to be adapted into a BBC drama about the 'human stories'

The BBC has commissioned a three-part drama centred around 'what went wrong' during the 2017 fire at the Grenfell Tower that killed 72 people

Daily Mirror

Grenfell Tower fire is being adapted into a BBC drama

Dramatisation, which BBC promises will be made ‘sensitively’, aims to reach the ‘heart of the catastrophe’

The Independent UK

Review: Cyberterrorism thriller ‘The Undeclared War’ imagines a plausible 2024 premise — but it’s not as gripping as it should be

A hit in England and now streaming on Peacock, the six-part Channel 4/Peacock coproduction “The Undeclared War” will likely find a smaller fan base here, especially younger ones (it’s rated TV-MA but the sexual and verbal content is aggressively discreet). It’s a frustrating watch, never crass or sloppy, but underpowered.

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‘I’m an all-or-nothing person’: actor Maisie Richardson-Sellers on risks, rewards and keeping it real

Her first ever role was in Star Wars, but Maisie Richardson-Sellers is also fascinated by more down-to- earth stories about women, queer love and politics

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: The Undeclared War; Aids: The Unheard Tapes; Sherwood; Only Murders in the Building and more

Coders fight to save Britain in Peter Kosminsky’s masterly cyberdrama; lip-synced Aids testimonies hit home; and James Graham’s Sherwood draws to a thrilling close

The Guardian - UK

'The Undeclared War might be to much after Covid but it's bingeable for the die-hards'

Peter Kosminsky’s latest series The Undeclared War is packed with the tension of catastrophe and is a bingeable series that plays on our already long-list on anxieties

Daily Mirror

The Undeclared War review: Simon Pegg-starring cyber crime drama is naff and politically muddled

Hannah Khalique-Brown and Adrian Lester also star in Peter Kosminsky’s ambitious but flawed Channel 4 series

The Independent UK

The Undeclared War review – Enid Blyton could have written this cybersecurity drama

Adrian Lester, Simon Pegg and the Mark Rylance star in a glacially paced show where GCHQ staff seem like bored office workers, and the one-note dialogue feels like something from a kids’ novel

The Guardian - UK

Channel 4 The Undeclared War starring Simon Pegg and Mark Rylance to air after major Bristol film shoot

It stars some famous faces such as Simon Pegg and Mark Rylance

Bristol Post

The Undeclared War: Who’s in it, what’s it about and when’s it on?

BAFTA award-winning creator Peter Kosminsky, lifts the veil on the "most urgent battle of our time."

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Boris won’t go that easily! The Undeclared War and the perils of writing near-future TV

The Undeclared War imagines a Britain with Boris Johnson finally gone, Ukraine fallen and cyber attacks crippling the country. Will audiences buy it? We examine the pitfalls of political TV

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