AMC has released the first trailer for Humans, featuring Bedlam star Gemma Chan as ‘Synth’ Anita.

Based on the hit Swedish drama Real Humans, the eight-part series is written by British duo Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley (Spooks). Vincent and Brackley have also written the upcoming Spooks movie, Spooks: The Greater Good.

Watch the teaser…

Katherine Parkinson (In the Club), William Hurt (Damages) and Tom Goodman-Hill (Mr. Selfridge) will lead the cast, alongside Colin Morgan (Merlin), Neil Maskell (Utopia), Will Tudor (Game Of Thrones), Emily Berrington and Rebecca Front (The Thick of It).

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William Hurt plays George Millican, a widower who has formed a close relationship with his out-of-date Synth Odi, who he treats more like a son than a piece of machinery.

Katherine Parkinson plays Laura, a woman who seems to have it all – a great career as a lawyer, a loving husband, three children. But inside she’s struggling with her own unresolved demons. In a misguided attempt to help the situation her husband Joe, played by Tom Goodman Hill, buys a Synth.

Played by Gemma Chan, Anita is the pliant, servile automaton that all Synths are supposed to be – but every now and then, she does something inexplicable. Something… almost human.

Humans begins in the US on AMC this summer and will air in the UK on Channel 4 later this year.

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