Well, the show's had four showrunners in as many seasons and it was only during this last season that things started to go very wrong. I assume the show's executive producers maintain some oversight over the storytelling. Ideally, Robert Rodat and Steven Spielberg will have left an envelope that says 'open when…

I'm optimistic about this final season because I've been telling myself that the last season was purposely terrible because the writers were sick of TNT renewing the show and forcing them to find ways to stretch the story out even further. Hopefully over the last three years, whilst coming up with ways to prolong the…

It was simply because of the show's poor ratings. Channel 4's legacy is built on controversial programming and the controversy Utopia attracted was pretty minor by their standards.

He was in the second episode as well and did some voice work for his final episode (ep 8).