Blood and Oil writer Guy Hibbert pens C4 spy drama

Channel 4 has commissioned writer Guy Hibbert (Blood and Oil, Five Minutes of Heaven, Omagh) and production company, Manyriversfilms to make a one-off drama about MI5 and the war on terror.

Complicit explores the "murky moral compromises that underpin the hidden intelligence war". In it he main character Edward, an MI5 officer, "wrestles with some of the key moral questions of our time. Can we fight terror with torture? Or do we lose everything, and everything we stand for as a democratic nation, by allying ourselves with the torturers of a brutal foreign regime?"

C4 chief creative officer Jay Hunt says: "I'm delighted to be able to greenlight this extraordinarily compelling film. Guy Hibbert's drama shows us a hidden world we think we know in an entirely original way, and goes straight to the core of one of the greatest dilemmas of our age."

The drama is produced by Kevin Toolis (Cult of the Suicide Bomber) and Jolyon Symonds (Mrs Mandela).