All-new TV series ‘Humans’ premiered  to 4.2 million viewers in the UK last week, and is now available for MENA audience exclusively on STARZ Play

UAE, 28 June 2015: STARZ Play - the premium online video service that provides the best and latest U.S. blockbuster movies and TV series - brings you the newest summer blockbuster series; Humans. The must-watch series which premiered recently to a whopping 4.2 million followers, will now be available from Monday 29th June, premiering the same day as the US and exclusively on STARZ Play (www.starzplay.com) for the MENA region.

A sci-fi, eight-part drama from the makers of Utopia and Broadchurch, Humans is set in a world that looks and feels much like our own, with one exception: this world relies on Synths. These highly-developed robotic servants are almost identical to humans and their sole purpose is to serve the families and individuals who buy them. The series explores the complex relationship between humans and these androids and follows them on a riveting journey, which threatens to expose a deeper, unseen facet of their automated being. 

Featuring a top-class cast including William Hurt (A History of Violence), Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd) and Colin Morgan (Merlin), Humans will be aired once a week on STARZ Play, every Monday the same day as the US. 

The recently launched premium online video streaming service, STARZ Play allows users access to unlimited content including numerous original series and over 3500 hours of movies and shows in HD at anytime, anywhere, on any device. 

Beat the heat this summer, and indulge in the cold and futuristic world of Humans, its set to send you on a spine-chilling ride through an increasingly foreseeable reality. 

About HUMANS

What makes us human? Can a synthetic creation ever think and feel the way we do? And if so, what do we do about it?

This brand new, ambitious eight-part drama, from the makers of Utopia and Broadchurch, takes just such a scenario and turns it into both a hair-raising thriller, and a rumination on the nature of humanity. Featuring a top-class cast including William Hurt (A History of Violence, Damages), Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd, The Honourable Woman), Colin Morgan (Merlin, The Fall) and Rebecca Front (The Thick Of It, Just William), Humans is a riveting look at a question that gets just a little less hypothetical every day.

Joe Hawkins (Tom Goodman Hill) makes the decision to invest in the latest must-have gadget for any busy family – a Synth. Terrified he is losing his wife Laura (Katherine Parkinson), he believes the addition to the household of a highly-developed robotic servant almost identical to humans will give them back the time they so desperately need and help them re-connect both as a couple and as a family.  Joe and the kids take the Synth (Gemma Chan) home, and christen her Anita. Anita is an immediate hit, and a chaotic house is suddenly transformed into an oasis of tidy, organised, well-fed contentment.

On her return from a work trip, a threatened Laura seems less susceptible to Anita’s efficiently chilly charms. There’s just something about her. Every now and again she does something… almost human.

Others, though, long since abandoned any scepticism, and embraced their Synths as part of the family. Widower George Millican (William Hurt) has formed a close relationship with his out-of-date synth Odi (Will Tudor), who he treats more like a son than a piece of machinery. Using Odi’s infallible memory, he is able to dredge up memories of his dead wife to fill his lonely void. But the authorities are keen to replace Odi with a more up-to-date model Vera (Rebecca Front), and when he starts to shown signs of malfunction, it seems he’s destined for the scrap heap. Assuming, that is, George plays ball…

Meanwhile, Leo (Colin Morgan) is a human on the run with his synth, Max (Ivanno Jeremiah)and the two unlikely companions are desperately searching for someone. But who, and why? Who or what are they running from? And why does this synth seem to be so unlike the others?

Also starring Neil Maskell and Jill Halfpenny, Humans is written by Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley (Spooks, Spooks: The Greater Good), and based on the award-winning Swedish sci-fi drama “Real Humans”. The series (8 x 60’) is produced by Kudos (Utopia, Broadchurch, The Hour) in association with Matador Films (Real Humans).  Directed by Sam Donovan (Utopia), executive producers are Jane