Channel 4 renews Humans for second series ahead of season finale

Channel 4 has announced there will be a second series of Humans, its most successful drama in 20 years, ahead of the show's highly anticipated season finale on Sunday night. Set in a parallel present, Humans has prompted widespread debate about artificial intelligence. It imagines a world in which we increasingly rely on robots, marketed as high-tech luxury house appliances. As the eight-part drama has progressed, it has wrestled with questions around artificial intelligence and its possible threat to mankind, as well as exploring what it means to be human. The next instalment the writers said will "take the world forward a little bit and explore the next phase of the technology".