28 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Iris Affair on Sky Atlantic: A wonderfully loopy thriller that pays homage to classic Hitchcock

Don't worry, there's a simple way to escape detection. Just put on a pair of glasses... and you'll be unrecognisable.

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29 h. ago The Iris Affair review – it takes real guts to write TV this thrillingly preposterous. Strap in!

Tom Hollander and Niamh Algar star in this fun, propulsive tale of a genius code-cracker, an oddball entrepreneur and an evil supercomputer known as Charlie Big Potatoes trapped in a secret lair. Brace yourself for a wild rideThere’s in media res and then there’s the opening of The Iris Affair. The new caper-drama opens with a man being beaten half to death while a woman (Niamh Algar) looks on unmoved and refusing to hand over a MacGuffin to the man ordering the beating (Tom Hollander, channelling Michael Caine). They are watched by a rather more concerned teenager, Joy (Meréana Tomlinson), who becomes infinitely more concerned when Hollander-Caine’s character realises that jamming a gun into her neck might be a better way to elicit a response from MacGuffin lady. Then he realises he can’t quite bring himself to shoot the child. But he can order his heavy to do so. The hired gun swings around and we cut to Sardinia, Italy, the day before. And that, my friends, is how a prologue shou...

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36 h. ago The Iris Affair review: Luther creator's absurd Sky thriller is ridiculously entertaining

The British tech thriller set in Italy is streaming from today on Sky

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36 h. ago The Iris Affair review: Sky’s deliriously entertaining tech thriller is brilliantly silly

A glossy new sci-fi thriller from Luther creator Neil Cross is about to entertain and baffle Sky subscribers this week

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39 h. ago The Iris Affair's Niamh Algar was 'weighed down underwater' for terrifying stunt on first day of filming

Niamh Algar was thrown headfirst into a "frightening" stunt for her very first day of filming Sky's new thriller The Iris Affair

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41 h. ago The Iris Affair's full cast from Pride & Prejudice legend to Game of Thrones favourite

The Iris Affair is a new action thriller series on Sky and now on TV, with a star-studded cast that includes a handful of actors who will be familiar to TV fans

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61 h. ago The Iris Affair's Tom Hollander addresses Elon Musk comparisons in Sky's new tech thriller

Sky thriller The Iris Affair stars Niamh Algar as a brilliant woman who's hired by a wealthy tech investor to unlock a supercomputer

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61 h. ago The Iris Affair villain Tom Hollander shuts down comparisons to Elon Musk

Tom Hollander has claimed he wasn’t inspired by Elon Musk while portraying The Iris Affair’s tech investor baddie

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3 d. ago The Iris Affair’s Niamh Algar admits she got ‘carried away’ during Sky thriller’s key action scene

The Iris Affair's Niamh Algar has teased a high-speed car chase scene in the gripping new Sky thriller

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7 d. ago Tech, terror and Tom Hollander: Niamh Algar on her wild new TV thriller

The Irish actor started out with Shane Meadows but her career is now stratospheric. As she takes on big tech in The Iris Affair, she talks about nerves, AI nightmares – and battling a malevolent supercomputerExplosions weren’t a problem, nor were the guns, fire, multiple fights and a spell underwater – but dealing with cockroaches? The line was drawn. “That was the one stunt we weren’t allowed to do,” says Niamh Algar with a laugh, “because cockroaches are actually quite dangerous.” Plus, she says with a wry smile, you can’t train one not to bite. It’s not too much of a spoiler to say her character in the new Sky Atlantic show The Iris Affair has a run-in with a bug infestation – CGI it turns out, and fakes made by the props team – that makes her other encounters with corrupt police, internet sleuths and a potentially malevolent megaquantum computer seem tame.Algar, most recently seen in the ITV thriller Playing Nice with James Norton earlier this year, plays Iris Nixon, a genius wh...

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1 week ago Everything we know about The Iris Affair as Luther creator's next thriller coming to Sky soon

The Iris Affair is the latest must-watch drama from screenwriter Neil Cross and it's coming to Sky customers very soon

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1 week ago The Iris Affair cast, plot and release date as Luther creator's next thriller hits screens

The creator of Luther Neil Cross is releasing a jaw-dropping new thriller that will keep fans guessing in every episode

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1 week ago Tom Hollander's new spy thriller that will be bigger than The Night Manager

After starring in The Night Manager, Tom Hollander plays another villainous character with shady motives in The Iris Affair, sharing the spotlight with a Malpractice star.

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1 week ago Tom Hollander stars in new spy thriller that will be bigger than The Night Manager

Niamh Algar stars in The Iris Affair, a new thriller where her character lives life on the run with a bounty on her head until a dangerous billionaire (Tom Hollander) hires her.

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4 w. ago Luther mastermind back with gripping Sky thriller as official trailer drops

The Iris Affair will be coming to Sky Atlantic and NOW TV next month.

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