Humans season 2 cast, spoilers and start ngày on Channel 4 and AMC 

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It was Channel 4\'s biggest drama hit of the past 20 years. It was Digital Spy\'s no. 1 TV show of 2015. And it\'s coming back, back,

is returning with more scintillating tales of sentient Synths – and here\'s absolutely everything we know about the eight new episodes.

Forgotten how things wrapped up? Here\'s a brief summary of what went down in August 2015\'s 

Elster\'s children – with the help of Karen (Ruth Bradley) – succeeded in unlocking the secret to Synth consciousness, but before they could decide what to do with it, Niska (Emily Berrington) deleted the code from Mattie\'s laptop, storing what appeared to be the only copy on a flash drive.

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In what appeared to be a big move towards establishing peaceful human/Synth relations, Niska entrusted the flash drive to Laura (Katherine Parkinson) – but Mattie (Lucy Carless) subsequently discovered that her spare flash drive was missing and Niska was later seen boarding a train, carrying said drive.

What actually occurred here isn\'t 100% clear. Did Niska leave Laura with a copy of the code, while also making a copy for herself? Or did she supply Laura with a dud and take the only real copy for herself?

The latter seems more likely, though you\'d think that Laura or Mattie would have double-checked the data on their flash drive.

Practically the entire cast from the 2015 series will be returning for the next run. That includes...

The Hawkins Family: Katherine Parkinson as Laura Hawkins, Tom Goodman-Hill as Joe Hawkins, Lucy Carless as Mattie Hawkins, Theo Stevenson as Toby Hawkins and Pixie Davies as Sophie Hawkins.

The Synths: Gemma Chan as Mia, Colin Morgan as Leo Elster, Emily Berrington as Niska, Ruth Bradley as DS Karen Voss, Sope Dirisu as Fred, Ivanno Jeremiah as Max and Will Tudor as Odi.

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Plus: Neil Maskell is also expected to return as DS Pete Drummond, while so far unconfirmed are Jill Halfpenny as his wife Jill and Danny Webb as wicked Edwin Hobb.

One notable absentee from the roster is William Hurt, whose Dr George Millican met his end in the first series.

 is based on – brought the character back as a "grief-bot" Synth, though writer Jonathan Brackley has suggested the UK series won\'t go down a similar path.

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\'s Marshall Allman as Silicon Valley billionaire Milo Khoury.

Morrow is hoping to advance David Elster\'s work by creating a new kind of machine consciousness and is recruited by the young and ambitious Khoury.

\'s Sam Palladio is also on board as café owner Ed – and this trio will be joined by 

Series two will pick up "a few months" after the first, with the robotic Synths having "gone a bit deeper" into our culture. In short: they\'re no longer a novelty.

"Things are developing fast, as technology does in all areas," said head writer Sam Vincent. "There\'s lots of new, society-wide effects which we\'re going to tell stories in."

The new characters played by Moss and Allman will "form part of what is a 

"It\'s much opened out from what we saw in series one," he hinted.

As for Palladio\'s Ed, he\'ll share most of his scenes with Gemma Chan\'s Mia, whose consciousness was restored in the first series.

"The story takes her down a very interesting path – needless to say it\'s quite an intense partnership for the two of them," the actor told DS in June.

2016\'s episodes will also introduce a few new villains, though Vincent and co-writer Brackley wouldn\'t be drawn on whether volatile Niska will go over to the dark side.

"I think it\'s really tantalising and dangerous to put the future in the hands of one of your characters who\'s very unpredictable, volatile, and dangerous," Vincent said.

"We do have a new antagonistic force in mind for this show, which is going to come into play and be embodied by a couple of new characters, but I can\'t say any more than that."

Series two started shooting in April, with new episodes expected to air on Channel 4 in late autumn and on AMC in early 2017.

beyond the next eight episodes? It seems there could well be, with writers Vincent and Brackley telling DS way back in October 2015 that the show "could run longer than two series".

"Definitely we have a very rough playful notion of what we\'d do in series beyond two," said Vincent, adding that the show has "got a few series in it".

changes could be heading the show\'s way if it were to continue into 2017.

"I know Jon and Sam are already talking about what they want to do with the third series," he revealed. "Quite a lot of jaws hit the floor when they intimated what that was going to be!

"We know a little bit about that, which is very exciting – and beyond that, I don\'t know. I think it\'s the kind of story that has enormous potential to just run and run."

For his part, Sam Palladio has intimated that he\'s keen to come back for another go-around, saying: "I would hope that there may be a life for Ed in series three. I\'d love to [come back]."

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