The BBC Officially Confirms 'The Capture' Has Nabbed a Third Season
It was January 2025 when reports that the BBC was reviving The Capture for a third season first surfaced in the U.K. press. The series, which went completely unnoticed in the U.S. when it streamed its first two seasons on Peacock in 2020 and 2022, was not a particularly massive hit in the U.K. However, it was a critical darling, with reviewers blown away by the series' ability to think through the current technological landscape to its logical endpoint. Season 1 took the then-brand-new technology of deep-faking and considered how a government might use it for less than scrupulous means; Season 2 took it a step further with an entire live interview deep-faked in real-time to take down a politician who wasn't falling into line. Now, Season 3 is back to ask where the world goes from here when entire swaths of media are dedicated to lies and falsehoods.
The series will continue to star Holliday Grainger (The Stolen Girl) as Rachel Carey, former DCI of the London Met, who accidentally found a security camera that was broadcasting a kidnapping while actually recording footage that showed none of it happened and a mystery that led her to discover SO15, which runs the UK intelligence service’s clandestine video manipulation program known as "Correction." Season 2 once again featured Carey, having taken up the offer to join the SO15 team, silently watching for her chance to expose the technology to the public and the U.K.'s disturbing use cases.
Season 2 concluded with Carey successfully broadcasting a "corrected" video as part of an expose hosted by BBC Newsnight presenter Khadija Khan (Indira Varma), while those running the SO15 department turned out to be using the technology to emotionally manipulate other team members, a delicious twist than nonetheless felt like a concluding comeuppance to the series. At the time, series creator Ben Chanan could not confirm or deny a third season would be forthcoming, but here it is almost three years later, and the show is back for more.
