Utopia is a British black comedy-conspiracy thriller drama television series. It was broadcast on Channel 4 from 15 January 2013 to 12 August 2014. The show was written by Dennis Kelly and starred Fiona O’Shaughnessy, Adeel Akhtar, Paul Higgins, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Alexandra Roach, Oliver Woollford, Alistair Petrie and Neil Maskell. In October 2014, the series’ official Twitter feed stated there would not be a third series.
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Utopia is a British black comedy-conspiracy thriller drama television series. It was broadcast on Channel 4 from 15 January 2013 to 12 August 2014. The show was written by Dennis Kelly and starred Fiona O’Shaughnessy, Adeel Akhtar, Paul Higgins, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Alexandra Roach, Oliver Woollford, Alistair Petrie and Neil Maskell. A second six-episode series was commissioned by Channel 4 and went into production in late 2013. In October 2014, the series’ official Twitter feed stated there would not be a third series. HBO had originally planned to make an American version of the show in 2014, but did not produce it due to budget disputes. Amazon then acquired the rights to the series as of April 2018, and anAmerican version was released on 25 September 2020. The story involved a shadowy organisation called The Network, and Kelly initially came out with an idea that The Network might be responsible for the rise in conspiracy theories because they thought it would be the best way to hide an actual conspiracy.
Utopia is set in London, but was filmed mostly in Merseyside and Yorkshire between April and October 2012, while the panning shot of the Mercury Hotel in the first episode was filmed in Westhoughton. To emulate the graphic novel printing process, Marc Munden chose to use a Technicolor palette – yellows, cyan, magentas. By the second series the production crew were preparing the film sets for grading. The final scene of the series, with Jessica Milner, was shot in the offices of a fictional newspaper in Liverpool. Many scenes were filmed in the village of Mere Brow, and the final episode was shot atop the Skelmersdale Cunner, with the final scene in the café on Cununner Hall. The series took about two years to come to fruition, and was produced by Kudos Film and Television, with Dennis Kelly as the director and Rebekah Wray-Rogers as the producer.
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