In October 2014, the series' official Twitter feed stated there would not be a third series. The show has since gained a cult following.
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A second six-episode series was commissioned by Channel 4 and went into production in late 2013, and was broadcast in July and August 2014. The show was written by Dennis Kelly and starred Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Adeel Akhtar, Paul Higgins, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Alexandra Roach, Oliver Woollford, Alistair Petrie and Neil Maskell. In a way Utopia never really left, but now it will be back where it belongs: on our screens, making people squirm all over again.Utopia is a British thriller drama television series that was broadcast on Channel 4 from 15 January 2013 to 12 August 2014. You could even argue that Stranger Things’ Eleven storyline bears a striking resemblance to that of Jessica Hyde, with the holy trinity of terrible parenting, shadowy experimentation and powerful unintended consequences all on display. The acrid and saturated colour palate and mega violence used in Preacher the paranoia and self doubt that runs through Mr Rabbit, I mean, Mr Robot while Kelly’s unflinching use of coarse language and matter-of-fact delivery lives on in Black Mirror, The City and the City and even Agatha Christie adaptations.
The show’s legacy can be seen all over our screens. Flynn could answer some of those questions and take the show in a new decade-spanning direction.Īt the time of its cancellation Alistair Petrie (who plays Dugdale’s ruthless boss Geoff) said on Twitter that the cancellation is a “huge shame but it will have a legacy in how bold drama can be”. Richard Vine, who recapped the series for The Guardian, said the larger scope of the second series, which time hopped to the 70s, kept him “wondering what else Rose Leslie’s version of Milner had got up to – what did she look like in the 80s? What was she doing in the 90s?”. Kelly hinted that he has enough material for four seasons of the show before it was cancelled. If the show does move beyond its first nine episodes, which will presumably see Flynn either bring the story up to the end of seasons one or two ( the UK original was six episodes per series), there is more story to go at. Neil Maskell as Arby and Fiona O’Shaughnessy as Jessica Hyde in Utopia Photograph: Channel 4įans of Utopia can hang on to this. The Office is the obvious example, where Ricky Gervais’s original tight two series effort was understood, unpacked and translated into a comedy that transcended the scope of its source material. Some are non-starters (Only Fools and Horses, Luther), while others swim around in development hell (The IT Crowd, Bad Education), but the rare few not only succeed but improve on the original. There’s always some trepidation when it comes to US remakes of British TV.
Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, who worked with Fincher on the Gone Girl film adaptation, will be executive producer and showrunner. Now Amazon have stepped in – as they often do – to breathe new life into it, with a nine episode remake.
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It looked doomed to – like Freaks and Geeks, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace and Deadwood – become a show you’d learn to hate just because of the amount of times TV bores would bang on about how tragic its cancelation was. The problem was that HBO and Fincher fell out over the budget. It would be a big, meaty Americanised version of Channel 4’s surprise package. The cast was rumoured to include Rooney Mara as Jessica Hyde, Colm Feore, Eric McCormack, Jason Ritter and Agyness Deyn. Immediately after its cancellation there was a reprieve of sorts for fans, as David Fincher announced he would be in charge of a remake for HBO.
In or not, popular or not, Nathan Barley or not, arguably, Channel 4 haven’t managed to match the uniqueness of Utopia’s pitch-black comedy and intrigue since.
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