TV preview: Humans

By The Newsroom

Published 18th Oct 2016, 14:00 BST

Updated 25th Oct 2016, 17:31 BST

Actors are always being told to be as expressive as possible and inject emotion into every line.

But for Gemma Chan, star of multi-Bafta-nominated robot drama Humans, any sign of humanity – even drawing breath – is a no-no.

As a robotic servant, or ‘synth’, Mia, Chan’s character never has a hair out of place. “I got told off for breathing too much yesterday,” she reveals during a break from filming the second series.