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    Nov 28, 2021 3 minutes

    SATURDAY DECEMBER 4

    Last year’s first season of the series adapted from Anthony Horovitz’s teen espionage novels was terrific in how it married 007-inspired escapism to a plausible, non-sanitised adolescent world. It also captured the spirit of the books without feeling beholden to them. Hopefully, that’s the case with the second series, which adapts the fourth book, and its story involving gaming billionaire Damian Cray, a dangerous hacker and a global plot that has Rider caught between his MI6 minders and the CIA. Otto Farrant) and Stephen Dillane (). Playing Cray is Toby Stephens, who has some previous form: he played villain Gustav Graves in 2002 Bond flick .

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