How ‘fake news’ stories helped to inspire new TV thriller The Capture

Writer Ben Chanan says that his new six-part drama reflects our worst fears about manipulation of video evidence

Every era gets the thriller it deserves, from the paranoid films of the 1970s through the nuclear fear of Edge of Darkness in the 1980s and the adrenaline rush of Paul Abbott’s 2003 drama State of Play.

Now a new series hopes to tap into our surveillance-driven times by examining the rise of “fake news” and the ease with which false narratives can be created in print and online and, perhaps more worryingly, through audio and video images.

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