Undercover (2016)

Directed by

James Hawes

Cast

Zhao Da, Zhang Lu, Ken Lok, Jiang Kai Yang, Qu Gao Wei, Zhao Long Hao, Wang Zhi Gang, Xing Yu Fei

Genre

drama

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A black British lawyer is appointed as the first female Director of Public Prosecutions. Her husband hides a secret past as a political activist and informant that threatens to unravel their lives.

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What happens

Undercover is a six-part BBC television drama series co-produced with BBC America which was first broadcast beginning 3 April 2016. The series premiered in the United States as a six-hour miniseries on 16 and 17 November 2016 on BBC America; it began its run on the CBC in Canada in August (it has aired Mondays at 9pm/9:30 NT, premiering 22 August 2016) and on Canal + in France since January 2017. For her performance in the series, Sophie Okonedo won the Royal Television Society Award for Actor: Female in 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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