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"Tom Hughes and Brian Cox are to star in BBC One&amp;#039;s new spy drama The Game. The Cold War thriller - which starts shooting this month - has been devised by Being Human creator Toby Whithouse.   The Game will follow the activities of a secret committee investigating a potentially devastating Soviet plot, codenamed Operation Glass. The head of MI5 - codenamed Daddy (Cox) - assembles a team of top operatives, including troubled but genius interrogator Joe Lambe (Hughes) and the rakish head of counter-espionage Bobby Waterhouse (Paul Ritter). Making up the rest of the team are Waterhouse&amp;#039;s quick-witted deputy Sarah Montag (Victoria Hamilton), her husband Alan (Jonathan Aris) - an expert in bugging and interception - Special Branch detective Jim Fenchurch (Shaun Dooley) and secretary Wendy Straw (Chloe Pirrie). Each episode, the team will uncover a new Soviet sleeper agent working on Operation Glass in the UK - and each name on their list brings them one step closer to understanding Operation Glass. Toby Whithouse promised that The Game will be &amp;quot;a thrilling mystery, with exciting and complex characters&amp;quot;.  &amp;quot;These are some of the finest actors working in television today and it&amp;#039;s an honour to have them on our show,&amp;quot; said the writer and executive producer. Tom Hughes said: &amp;quot;Joe is the type of character that you come across very rarely - on the surface one person, but inside someone entirely different. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s running away from himself. It is those parts that always attract me, the ones that don&amp;#039;t just tick a box, they challenge. I couldn&amp;#039;t be more delighted to have signed up for this project.&amp;quot; Brian Cox added: &amp;quot;I am delighted to be part of the new BBC One drama The Game. The rich character-driven storylines were a real draw, and really capture the intense feeling of the cold war period.&amp;quot; A six-part hour-long drama, The Game will film in Birmingham, London and Wales. &amp;gt; Being Human creator for new BBC One spy drama "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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