Mark Rilance, Simon Peggy and Adrian Lester will star in the series "Dark War" jointly developed by Peacock and Channel 4. The six-episode series, written and directed by Peter Cosmin King (Wolf Hall), takes place in 2024 after the end of the epidemic against the backdrop of the upcoming British general election and the upcoming birth of Britain's first black Conservative Prime Minister (Leicester). A leading team of analysts at the heart of GCHQ, the NSA-style spy agency, is trying to fend off cyber attacks on the country's electoral system.