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| starring = [[Benedict Cumberbatch]]<br />[[Anamaria Marinca]]<br />[[Max Beesley]]<br />[[Robert Carlyle]]<br />[[Eva Birthistle]]<br />[[Geraldine James]]<br />Tom Fisher<br />[[James Lance]]<br />San Shella<br />[[David Harewood]]<br />[[Christopher Fulford]]<br />[[Paul Higgins (actor)|Paul Higgins]]<br />[[Nick Sidi]] |
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| composer = [[Magnus Fiennes]] |
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Revision as of 23:41, 15 January 2013
| The Last Enemy | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama Thriller Science fiction Adventure Mystery |
| Written by | Peter Berry |
| Directed by | Iain B. MacDonald |
| Starring | Benedict Cumberbatch Anamaria Marinca Max Beesley Robert Carlyle Eva Birthistle Geraldine James Tom Fisher James Lance San Shella David Harewood Christopher Fulford Paul Higgins Nick Sidi |
| Composer | Magnus Fiennes |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 5 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Patrick Irwin Justin Thomson-Glover Adrian Bate |
| Producers | Gub Neal, Rebecca Eaton (for WGBH) |
| Production locations | London, UK; Bucharest, Romania |
| Camera setup | John Hembrough |
| Running time | 85 minutes (Episode 1); 60 minutes (Episodes 2–5) |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC One |
| Release | 17 February – 16 March 2008 |
The Last Enemy is a BBC television series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and featuring Robert Carlyle and Max Beesley. It first aired on 17 February 2008.
Plot
Set in London beset by terrorism and illegal immigration, it features the introduction of "TIA" (Total Information Awareness), a centralised database that can be used to track and monitor anybody effectively by putting all available government information in one place. The story deals with a political cover-up centred around a rogue batch of vaccine that seems to be causing a deadly virus, as well as the moral, social and privacy concerns of such a system in a post-7/7 world. The story is told through the eyes of a mathematical genius, Stephen Ezard, who is portrayed as a recluse and showing some signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The final episode then has a plot twist in which this apparent virus is shown to be in fact an ethnicity-specific side effect of an experiment in producing an internal, injected and unfakeable bio-tag, a side-effect, which affects Arabs, but not Caucasians, and so (to avoid international scandal) has had to be shut down.
Viewing figures
| Episode number | Season | Original airing | Total viewers | Audience share (average) | Season viewer average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Season 1 | 17 February 2008 | 4.2m[1] | 18% | 2.7m |
| 2 | Season 1 | 24 February 2008 | 2.5m[2] | 10% | |
| 3 | Season 1 | 2 March 2008 | 2.3m[3] | 9.4% | |
| 4 | Season 1 | 9 March 2008 | 2.5m[4] | 10% | |
| 5 | Season 1 | 16 March 2008 | 2m[5] | 8% |
Distribution
- The Last Enemy aired in the United States on PBS stations on Masterpiece Contemporary.
- In Australia, The Last Enemy TV series commenced airing on free-to-air-TV on ABC1 (the national public television channel) from 8:30pm on 19 July 2009[6] and concluded on 16 August 2009.[7]
- The Last Enemy aired on TVO in Ontario, Canada from 9:00 pm on 1 April 2009 to 29 April 2009
- "The Last Enemy" aired weekly in Denmark on DR1 from 10:45 pm on 26 January 2012
References
- ^ Holmwood, Leigh (18 February 2008). "TV ratings - February 18: Kingdom reigns over The Last Enemy". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Holmwood, Leigh (25 February 2008). "TV ratings - February 24: To see you nice, say Brucie's 6.5 million". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Esposito, Maria (3 March 2008). "TV ratings - March 2: Lewis beats BBC enemy". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Holmwood, Leigh (10 March 2008). "TV ratings - March 9: ITV1 hits 9.6m Sunday peak". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Holmwood, Leigh (17 March 2008). "TV ratings - March 16: Dancing on Ice final wins for ITV". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "ABC1 TV Guide Program Information". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- ^ "ABC1 TV Guide Program Information". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.