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Athena Morrow
''Humans'' is a science fiction television series that debuted in June 2015 on Channel 4 and on AMC. Written by Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent, based on the Swedish science fiction drama ''Real Humans'', the series explores the themes of artificial intelligence, robotics, and their effects on the future of humanity, focusing on the social, cultural, and psychological impact of the invention and marketing of anthropomorphic robots called "synths". The series is produced jointly by Channel 4 and Kudos in the United Kingdom, and AMC in the United States. Eight episodes were produced for the first series which aired between 14 June and 2 August 2015. The second eight-episode series was broadcast in the UK between 30 October and 18 December 2016. A third series was commissioned in March 2017 and aired eight episodes between 17 May and 5 July 2018. In May 2019, Channel 4 announced that the series had been cancelled. Premise The series focuses on the social, cultural, and psycho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, and extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances. Science fiction is related to fantasy (together abbreviated wikt:SF&F, SF&F), Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many #Subgenres, subgenres. The genre's precise Definitions of science fiction, definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include hard science fiction, ''hard'' science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, ''soft'' science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Tudor
William James Sibree Tudor (born 11 April 1987) is an English actor, known for his role as Olyvar in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'' from 2013 to 2015. He has also appeared in the miniseries ''The Red Tent (miniseries), The Red Tent'', and the Channel 4 series ''Humans (TV series), Humans''. From 2017 to 2018, he portrayed List of The Mortal Instruments characters#Jonathan Morgenstern, Sebastian Verlac / Jonathan Morgenstern on the Freeform (TV channel), Freeform series ''Shadowhunters''. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tudor, Will 1987 births Living people 21st-century English male actors Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Alumni of the University of Leicester English male film actors English male television actors Male actors from London People educated at Shrewsbury School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, and extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances. Science fiction is related to fantasy (together abbreviated wikt:SF&F, SF&F), Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many #Subgenres, subgenres. The genre's precise Definitions of science fiction, definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include hard science fiction, ''hard'' science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, ''soft'' science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AMC (TV Channel)
AMC (an abbreviation of the channel's original name, American Movie Classics) is an American basic cable television channel that is the flagship property of AMC Networks. Launched in late 1984, the channel aired classic films prior to the 1970s, similar to Turner Classic Movies, the channel's former rival, until 2002, when AMC retired the American Movie Classics name as a result of a Channel drift, major shift in List of programs broadcast by AMC, its programming, and today airs original shows that are mainly dramas and documentaries, while airing theatrically released films, and acquired television programming. As of December 2024, AMC was available in approximately 60 million U.S. pay-TV households. This marks a decline from 65.1 million households in December 2023 and 94.8 million in July 2015, reflecting the broader trend of cord-cutting and the shift toward streaming platforms. History 1984–2002: Focus on classic films American Movie Classics, as AMC was originally kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It is state-owned enterprise, publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is funded entirely by its commercial activities, including Television advertisement, advertising. It began its transmission in 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service in the United Kingdom. At the time, the only other channels were the television licence, licence-funded BBC1 and BBC2, and a single commercial broadcasting network, ITV (TV network), ITV. Originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. Until 2010, Channel 4 did not broadcast in Wales, but many of its programmes were re-broadcast ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AMC Studios
AMC Networks Inc. is an American mass media and entertainment corporation headquartered in 11 Penn Plaza, New York City. The company owns and operates the AMC cable channel, BBC America, IFC, Sundance TV, and We TV. It also owns the art house movie theater IFC Center in New York City; the independent film companies Independent Film Company and RLJE Films, the anime licensor Sentai Filmworks, the premium subscription streaming services AMC+, IFC Films Unlimited, Acorn TV, Allblk, Shudder, Sundance Now, Philo, and Hidive, and a minority interest in the Canadian production studio Shaftesbury Films. The company operates in Europe and Latin America through its international division, AMC Networks International. AMC Networks also maintains a minority share in the US operations of the British-TV streaming service BritBox, a joint venture between the BBC and ITV plc. The current incarnation of the company, founded as a publicly traded company in July 2011, is the successor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kudos (production Company)
Kudos is a British film and television production company. It has produced television series for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky, Amazon and Netflix and its productions include '' Tin Star, Humans, Broadchurch, The Tunnel'', ''Grantchester, Apple Tree Yard, Utopia,'' '' Spooks'' (US: ''MI5''), '' Hustle'' and ''Life on Mars/ Ashes to Ashes.'' In 2007 it was voted Best Independent Production Company by ''Broadcast'' magazine. Formed in 1992, since 2007 it has been part of the Shine Group. In 2007 it also set up the film unit, Kudos Pictures. In 2011, the Shine Group was 100% acquired by News Corporation and was part of the 50–50 joint-venture Endemol Shine Group in 2015. On 3 July 2020, France-based Banijay bought the studio through former's acquisition of Endemol Shine Group. History The company was formed in 1992. It came to international attention with the BAFTA Award-winning spy drama '' Spooks'', which debuted on BBC One on 13 May 2002. In late 2006, the company was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Wax
Derek Wax is a British television executive producer. His work includes '' The Rig'', ''The Sixth Commandment'', ''Sex Traffic'', '' Occupation'', '' The Hour,'' '' Troy: Fall of a City,'' ''Capital,'' ''Humans'', '' Lip Service,'' '' Tsunami: The Aftermath'' and '' From There to Here''. He was a producer at Granada TV from 2001 to 2005 and an Executive Producer at Kudos from 2005 to 2017. Wax started his career working in London-based theatres before moving to the BBC to work in television production. He was an Executive Producer at Kudos from 2005 to 2017. He left Kudos to launch his new label Wild Mercury Productions in 2017. Wax's first major work came as a producer of the BAFTA-nominated drama ''Flesh and Blood'' for BBC2 in 2002. This was followed by the Channel 4 series ''Sex Traffic'', which won a number of BAFTA awards including Best Serial, also the RTS award for Best Mini Series, and the Prix Italia. His first role as an executive producer came on the BBC and HBO m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristobal Tapia De Veer
Juan Cristóbal Tapia de Veer is a Chilean and Canadian film and television score composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is best known for his work on the TV series '' The White Lotus'', for which he won several Primetime Emmy Awards. He is also known for scoring British TV series ''Utopia'', for which he won a Royal Television Society award in the best original score category in 2013, and Channel 4's '' National Treasure'', which earned him a BAFTA in 2017. He has received awards from the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada in 2013 and 2017. Early life Tapia de Veer was born during the 1973 military coup d'état in Chile. His parents fled to Paris, France. After the coup, his father remained in France, and his mother took him back to Chile. Life under Pinochet's dictatorship still proved difficult, so they became political refugees in Quebec, Canada. Career Tapia de Veer earned a master's d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie-Anne Moss
Carrie-Anne Moss (born August 21, 1967) is a Canadian actress. After early roles on television, she rose to international prominence for her role of Trinity in ''The Matrix'' series (1999–present). She has starred in '' Memento'' (2000), for which she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, '' Red Planet'' (2000), '' Chocolat'' (2000), '' Fido'' (2006), '' Snow Cake'' (2006), for which she won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, '' Disturbia'' (2007), '' Unthinkable'' (2010), '' Silent Hill: Revelation'' (2012), and ''Pompeii'' (2014). She also portrayed Jeri Hogarth in several television series produced by Marvel Television for Netflix, most notably ''Jessica Jones'' (2015–2019). Early life Carrie-Anne Moss was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, the daughter of Barbara and Melvyn Moss. She has an older brother, Brooke. Moss's mother reportedly named her after the Hollies' 1967 hit song, "Carrie Anne", which had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonya Cassidy
Sonya Cassidy (born 5 March 1987) is a British actress. Her credits include ''The Tudors'' (2009), '' The Paradise'' (2012), ''Vera'' (2012–2014), '' The Great Fire'' (2014), ''Survivor'' (2015), ''Olympus'' (2015), ''Humans'' (2016), '' The Woman in White'' (2018), ''Lodge 49'' (2019), '' The Last Kingdom'' (2022), ''The Man Who Fell to Earth'' (2022), ''The Hunt For Raoul Moat'' (2023), and season 3 of '' Reacher'' (2025). Career Cassidy attended RADA, graduating with a BA in Acting Degree (H Level) in 2008. In 2012, she played Clara in the BBC period drama '' The Paradise'', as Celine Ashworth in the police detective series ''Vera'', and as the Oracle in Syfy fantasy series ''Olympus''. In 2016, she played industrial synth Hester in the Channel 4 science fiction series ''Humans'', alongside Gemma Chan and Colin Morgan. Cassidy starred in the AMC television series ''Lodge 49''. She also has some film appearances and has also done theatre work. In 2022, she starred in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
