'The Capture's Ben Chanan Wants You To Question Every Screen You See

Sophmore slump is a real phenomenon, but not for BBC's The Capture, which debuted its second season in the U.S. on streaming service Peacock on Nov. 3, 2022. Series creator and showrunner Ben Chanan, who wrote and directed all six episodes of the first season, comes back to the world of deep fakes and CCTV with an all new perspective. Instead of focusing on one man's story, and whether or not the video evidence that proves him innocent or guilty is real, The Capture Season 2 takes a sweeping view of all the possible screens ripe for the manipulating.

As Chanan told Telly Visions, working on the show "makes you question every screen you see." As CCTV becomes more prevalent around the world, and the technology to create believable looking deep fakes ever easier for anyone to access, the nightmare scenario he dreamed up becomes less science fiction and more science fact. Though "Correction," the euphemistic therm Chanan invented for the process of taking real live footage and manipulating it in real time, does not exist yet (that we know of) it's only a matter of time before it's a tool governments could easily use in morally questionable ways.

We sat down with Chanan as Season 2 of The Capture landed on U.S. shores to talk about everything from the public's unawareness of how much they're being watched, to just how dependant we've become on video communication and video evidence.