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JK Simmons leads MGM+ drama The Westies

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FIRST LOOK: JK Simmons heads the cast of The Westies, a new crime drama set in New York City in the early 1980s that will debut worldwide on MGM+ on July 12, 2026.

Described as a gritty and kinetic crime drama centring on New York’s infamously violent Irish gang of the same name, the series opens as the construction of the Jacob Javits Convention Center on the Westies’ home turf in Hell’s Kitchen promises a financial windfall.

Despite being outnumbered 50-to-one by the Five Families of the Italian Mafia, the Westies’ legendary brutality and cunning have given them the leverage necessary to share the spoils through a fragile détente. But internal conflict between the brash younger generation and the old-school leadership threatens to set a match to this powder keg, which will sweep the Westies into the FBI’s ever-deepening investigation into the Italian mafia.

Simmons stars as Eamonn Sweeney, as part of a cast that also includes Titus Welliver, Tom Brittney, Stanley Morgan, Sarah Bolger and Jessica Frances Dukes.

Created and executive produced by Chris Brancato, alongside co-creator Michael Panes, The Westies will be available to stream on MGM+ across the US, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Colombia.

The eight-episode series marks Brancato’s third collaboration with MGM+, following Godfather of Harlem and Narcos.

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Alicia Silverstone returns to Acorn TV for more Irish Blood

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FIRST LOOK: Filming is underway in and around Dublin on the second season of Irish Blood, with Alicia Silverstone reprising her lead role in the Acorn TV series.

S2 finds Silverstone’s Fiona Fox still reeling from the repercussions of her estranged father Declan (Jason O’Mara)’s death, while extricating her mother Mary (Wendy Crewson) from peril at the hands of grifter Callum Deasy (Stuart Graham). As Mary, Fiona and Róisín (Ruth Codd) continue to follow the breadcrumb trail of clues left in Declan’s briefcase, they are swept up in a crime-solving adventure across Ireland.

The cast also includes Dearbhla Molloy, Simone Kirby, Leonardo Taiwo and Stuart Graham.

Irish Blood is executive produced by Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, Paul Donovan, Ailish McElmeel, Susan Coyne, Christina Ray, Aaron Martin, Silverstone and Ruba Nadda, who also directs. Producers are Catherine O’Flaherty and Paige Haight.

Irish Blood is produced by Shaftesbury and Deadpan Pictures, in association with AMC Studios, which holds worldwide distribution rights. In Canada, Irish Blood is available for streaming on Crave.

Read DQ’s interview with Alicia Silverstone on the making of Irish Blood S1 here.

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The Best Immigrant stars Jennifer Heylen and Farouk Ben Ali discuss the making of this dystopian political drama

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The Best Immigrant stars Jennifer Heylen and Farouk Ben Ali tell DQ how Streamz’s dystopian hit turns immigration, survival and television spectacle into political drama. When a far-right political party is elected to power in a dystopian Flanders, it puts into action a plan to deport all immigrants to their country of birth. There is, however, one way those facing removal can win the right to stay: by entering a ruthless new gameshow called The Best Immigrant, where the prize is a permanent residence permit. That is the setup for Belgian drama The Best Immigrant, which centres on Muna and Jamal, two teachers who find themselves facing deportation – and separation – because they come from different countries. Their only chance to remain together is to accept an invitation to take part in the gameshow. But after agreeing, they discover the contestants are being pitted against each other in a furious battle to avoid elimination and prove they are “the best Fleming.” Debuting on Belgian streamer Streamz in December last year before its international premiere at French television festival Series Mania earlier this year, the five-part series stars Jennifer Heylen and Farouk Ben Ali as Muna and Jamal, with Charlotte Timmers as TV producer Lauren and Louis Talpe as gameshow presenter Nathan. “I really wanted to do it. When I first read the script, when they first sent it to me, I found it so interesting, because in Belgium, they don’t really make series like that,” Ali tells DQ. “To … Continue reading The Best Immigrant stars Jennifer Heylen and Farouk Ben Ali discuss the making of this dystopian political drama →

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ITV shines a light on The Dark with Laura Donnelly and Mark Rowley

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FIRST LOOK: Laura Donnelly and Mark Rowley head the cast of The Dark, a six-part serial killer drama coming to ITV and STV this summer.

Donnelly plays DI Monica Kennedy, who embarks on a tense cat and mouse hunt for a twisted serial killer across the breathtaking Scottish countryside alongside her new partner DC Connor Crawford (Rowley).

When the body of a young man is found eerily staged in the idyllic Scottish wilderness, Monica fears this is just the beginning of a terrifying campaign that will strike the heart of a rural community. As paranoia rises, suspicions and secrets are forced into the light, and the locals start to realise that there is a serial killer hidden amongst them.

With her experience of dealing with the darkest of humanity Monica Kennedy quickly becomes entangled in a heightened game of cat and mouse with a cunning killer. Only she can stop this monster before he claims any more victims. But when her own history creeps up on her, she begins to lose trust in her own judgement. Will it be her own actions that are the biggest risk to herself and her family?

Helen Baxendale also appears as mother Bethany Morgan, who is pushed to her limit after Monica appears on her doorstep with a case linked to her missing son.

The series is adapted for television from GR Halliday’s debut novel, From the Shadows, by Matt Hartley and produced by Poison Pen Studios.

Ben Stephenson, Preethi Mavahalli, Luke Woellhaf and Fern McCauley are executive producers alongside Matt Hartley. Matt Brown has produced the series, which has Lena Rae and Nessah Muthy writing and Gilles Bannier as lead director and executive producer.

ITV Studios will also distribute the series internationally.

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Keeley Hawes and Freddie Highmore return to Prime Video for The Assassin S2

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FIRST LOOK: Keeley Hawes and Freddie Highmore reunite as on-screen mother and son for the second season of The Assassin, which will premiere on Prime Video in the UK and Ireland later this year.

Returning stars Hawes, Highmore, Shalom Brune-Franklin and Devon Terrell will join a cast that also includes newcomers Arnaud Binard as Bastien, a charismatic Frenchman whose path crosses with Julie (Hawes) – though whether by chance or design remains to be seen, and Natalia Tena as Inspector Cortez, a sharp Spanish detective whose emotional intelligence and steely ambition should not be underestimated.

Boris Van Severen plays Titus, a desperate and conflicted Belgian man driven by resentment and loss, whose bid to claim the life he believes he deserves quickly spirals as he finds himself out of his depth and open to manipulation.

Jacqueline Boatswain also joins the cast as Isha Lockwood, a long-time employee of Ezra’s father’s mining empire. Now working under Ezra (Terrell) and frequently clashing with him, Isha finds her perspective shifting when a life-or-death situation means she is forced to go far beyond her job description. Monic Hendrickx plays Louise, a complex figure whose close connection to Julie and Edward has consequences that span both past and present.

They are also joined by Karl-El Santos, Mehdi Regragui, Casimiro Aguza, Tony Corvillo, Amin Hamada and Lolo Herrero, who form part of Cortez’s team.

Season two picks up after Edward (Highmore) and Julie have returned from a disastrous trip to Berlin, where they find themselves estranged once again following a mysterious fall-out no one is willing to discuss.

Julie’s days as an assassin are far from behind her as she has slipped back to her old ways, whilst navigating something just as perilous… the dating scene. When Edward’s honeymoon with Kayla (Brune-Franklin) doesn’t go quite as planned, he must reunite with Julie to take on Spain’s corrupt underworld, but can they survive the job and mend the rift that tore them apart?

Filming on The Assassin S2 is taking place in Malta. In the UK and Ireland, the series will premiere on Prime Video in 2026.

The Assassin is a Two Brothers Pictures production for Prime Video UK, ZDF in Germany and Stan in Australia in association with distributor All3Media International.

The six-part drama has been written and created by Harry and Jack Williams, who are both also executive producers, with Sarah Hammond, Alex Mercer and Daisy Mount as executive producers for Two Brothers Pictures, and Keeley Hawes and Freddie Highmore.

John Griffin is producer with Terry McDonough – who is also an executive producer – directing episodes 1-3 and Sarah O’Gorman directing episodes 4-6. Jessica Mescall is casting director. Halo Pictures are the Maltese service company.

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Antonia Thomas finds trouble in paradise with BBC drama Two Weeks in August

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Antonia Thomas gives DQ the lowdown on her “unicorn job” as one of the stars of  Two Weeks in August, a BBC holiday drama in which friendship, desire and buried insecurities collide.

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Reading The Testaments with star Mattea Conforti, director Mike Barker and costume designer Leslie Kavanagh

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As The Testaments reaches its S1 finale, star Mattea Conforti, director Mike Barker and costume designer Leslie Kavanagh tell DQ how they returned to Gilead for Hulu and Disney+’s coming-of-age sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale.

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Dear England: James Graham and Rupert Goold on taking the Gareth Southgate football drama from stage to screen

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Dear England writer James Graham and director Rupert Goold tell DQ how they turned Gareth Southgate’s England reign into a BBC drama about football, leadership and national identity.

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Two Weeks in August writer Catherine Shepherd on crafting this tale of rising tensions among friends on holiday in Greece

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Two Weeks in August creator Catherine Shepherd tells DQ how a family holiday, Maltese locations and a tangled web of friendships shaped her BBC drama about paradise turning sour.

 

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Kenneth Karlstad on directing chaotic energy into Norwegian wartime drama The Traitor Within

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Norwegian director Kenneth Karlstad tells DQ how he brought his chaotic visual storytelling to The Traitor Within, the first fictional drama to explore Henry Rinnan, one of Norway’s most infamous wartime figures.

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Making Monyová: how the biopic of a bestselling Czech author shines a light on domestic abuse and violent relationships

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The team behind Monyová tell DQ how they brought Czech writer Simona Monyová’s life to screen in a series that portrays her strength while confronting the domestic abuse that led to her murder. With a flair for humour, irony and emotional insight, Czech author Simona Monyová became a phenomenon of women’s literature, publishing 29 novels in just 14 years. Yet as the tagline to a new six-part biopic about the writer states: “She wrote about love. She lived in Hell.” Though many people read Monyová’s books, few knew the circumstances of her personal life. For many years, she lived with domestic abuse in a violent relationship – one she eventually managed to leave before she was murdered in 2011, aged 44, by her second husband. She left behind three sons. Commissioned by Czech streamer Oneplay, the drama – called Monyová – follows the author in the 1990s as her career takes her from an ordinary apartment building to the top of the book charts and onto magazine covers. When she decides to leave her first husband to start a new relationship, her new lover quickly shows his true nature – leaving many to consider how her writing was shaped by her personal life. However, the show, which debuts today, never seeks to portray Monyová as a victim, and instead presents her as a distinctive author, a strong woman and a mother whose experience remains urgent and resonant today. Created in close collaboration with her family, it is produced by Film … Continue reading Making Monyová: how the biopic of a bestselling Czech author shines a light on domestic abuse and violent relationships →

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Channel 4 previews Russell T Davies drama Tip Toe with Alan Cumming and David Morrissey

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FIRST LOOK: Here’s some new images and a first clip of Tip Toe, the new drama from Russell T Davies starring Alan Cumming and David Morrissey coming soon to Channel 4.

Leo (Cumming) runs a bar on Canal Street, while Clive (Morrissey)’s an electrician with a wife and two sons. But when one man gives the other his front door key, it opens a world of fear, mistrust, prejudice and danger, as their lives collide. It’s neighbours at war like never before, in a tense suburban thriller which challenges everything we consider to be safe.

Jackson Connor plays Clive’s youngest son George, with Joseph Evans as George’s older brother Saul; Iz Hesketh as Zee and Shakeel Kimotho as Hanna, who both work at Leo’s bar Spit & Polish; Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo as the bar’s manager Judy; Paul Rhys as Melba, a Canal Street fixture; Stephen Bailey as Benny; and Denise Welch as Diane.

The series also stars Pooky Quesnel as Clive’s wife Marie, Elizabeth Berrington as Leo’s best friend Stephanie and Charlie Condou as Leo’s ex-husband Curtis.

Tip Toe is produced by Quay Street Productions, with Nicola Shindler, Russell T Davies, Peter Hoar and Alan Cumming as executive producers. The series is produced by Phil Collinson, directed by Peter Hoar and is cast by Andy Pryor.

ITV Studios will distribute the show internationally.

Read more about Tip Toe here.

 

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Joseph Fiennes is Gareth Southgate in James Graham’s BBC stage adaptation Dear England

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TRAILER: Joseph Fiennes, Jodie Whittaker and Jason Watkins star in Dear England, a new drama about Gareth Southgate and the England men’s football team launching on the BBC on Sunday, May 24, 2026.

Written by James Graham (Sherwood) and based on his stage play of the same name, the four-part series sees Fiennes play Southgate as he aims to start a new chapter with the England men’s team.

With the worst team track record for penalties in the world when he takes over as manager, Gareth knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt to take England back to the promised land. The country that gave the world football has delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t the England team win at their own game?

Produced by Left Bank Pictures, Dear England is a fictionalised account of the struggles and successes of the England men’s team, based on extensive research and interviews.

Whittaker (Doctor Who) plays England men’s team psychologist Pippa Grange, Watkins (The Game) is former FA chairman Greg Dyke and John Hodgkinson (Small Axe) is former FA chairman Greg Clarke.

Daniel Ryan (The Bay) is Steve Holland, former assistant manager for the England men’s team. Sam Spruell (The Gold) stars as fictional coach Mike Webster.

Adam Hugill, Josh Barrow and screen newcomer Lewis Shepherd reprise their respective stage roles as Harry Maguire, Jordan Pickford and Dele Alli.

Will Antenbring stars as Harry Kane, Edem-Ita Duke is Marcus Rashford, Francis Lovehall is Raheem Sterling, Abdul Sessay is Bukayo Saka, Jacob Greenway is Jude Bellingham, David Shields is Jordan Henderson, Hamish Frew is Eric Dier, Alfie Middlemiss is Phil Foden, Riess Fennell is Jadon Sancho, Daniel Quincy Annoh is Ollie Watkins, Bobby Schofield is Wayne Rooney, Sam Baker Jones is Jack Grealish and newcomers Dom Rayner and Xander Westcarr-Parsons are Cole Palmer and Jesse Lingard respectively.

Rupert Goold, who directed Dear England on stage, directs episode one. Paul Whittington will direct episodes two to four. Tina Pawlik is the producer.

The executive producers are Andy Harries and Rebecca Hodgson for Left Bank Pictures, Jo McClellan for the BBC and James Graham, Rupert Goold and Paul Whittington.

Sony Pictures Television will distribute Dear England internationally.

Episodes one and two of Dear England will be available to stream on BBC iPlayer from 9pm on Sunday, May 24, with the following two episodes arriving on BBC iPlayer the following Sunday (May 31). On BBC One the episodes will air on Sunday and Monday nights at 9pm from Sunday, May 24.

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Rivals returns: stars Alex Hassell, Bella Maclean, Emily Atack, Nafessa Williams, Rufus Jones and Luca Pasqualino on S2 of the Disney+ drama

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The cast of Rivals take DQ back to Rutshire, where S2 brings polo matches, political battles, farcical dinner parties and even more sex, scandal and hairspray to Disney+ and Hulu. By his own admission, Rufus Jones has been “lucky and traumatised” to be naked quite a lot during his career. So the actor wasn’t at all fazed to discover his first day shooting scenes for the second season of riotous 1980s-set comedy-drama Rivals called for him to be dancing in the buff in the shower. “That was my first day,” he tells DQ. “But it’s always a privilege to get your trousers off for Jilly Cooper.” Jones, who plays local politician Paul Stratton, is just one of a number of stars reprising their roles in the expanded 12-part second season of Rivals, an adaptation of the late author Cooper’s novel of the same name, which is set among the rolling hills of the fictional Rutshire. So too is his on-screen wife Emily Atack, who plays Sarah Stratton, as well as David Tennant (Lord Tony Baddingham), Alex Hassell (Rupert Campbell-Black), Aidan Turner (Declan O’Hara), Nafessa Williams (Cameron Cook), Bella Maclean (Taggie O’Hara), Katherine Parkinson (Lizzie Vereker), Danny Dyer (Freddie Jones) and Luca Pasqualino (Basil ‘Bas’ Baddingham), among many more. New faces include Hayley Atwell as Helen Gordon, Rupert’s ex-wife and the mother of his two children, and Rupert Everett as her husband Malise Gordon, Rupert’s former showjumping coach and mentor.  Picking up directly from the conclusion of S1, the story … Continue reading Rivals returns: stars Alex Hassell, Bella Maclean, Emily Atack, Nafessa Williams, Rufus Jones and Luca Pasqualino on S2 of the Disney+ drama →

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How Neil Forsyth turned Britain’s undercover Customs officers into Netflix crime drama Legends

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Neil Forsyth goes undercover with DQ to discuss Legends, Netflix’s true crime drama about Customs officials infiltrating drug gangs in 1990s Britain. After two seasons of The Gold, the BBC drama centring on the consequences of the monumental Brink’s-Mat robbery in 1983, writer Neil Forsyth wasn’t planning on developing another factual drama for his next project. Then three years ago, he heard about Guy Stanton, a former Customs official who worked undercover for more than a decade to help bring down international drug smuggling. Stanton later revealed much of his work in his 2022 book The Betrayer. Forsyth tracked Stanton down and went for lunch with him, and was blown away by his “extraordinary” revelations. “It was a beautiful, sunny day in a very leafy village, in a nice restaurant, and I was hearing this older, very unassuming man tell these incredible stories about his younger career and his younger life,” Forsyth tells DQ. “I just thought it was really tantalising. Then I met some other ‘legends’ that he introduced me to – I drove around and visited these people and got to know them a little bit, and maybe won their trust, to a degree. It was just a fascinating story.” The Scottish writer subsequently began to develop a series about a group of Customs employees going undercover to infiltrate Britain’s biggest drug gangs, while using false identities known as ‘legends.’ The resulting drama is now streaming on Netflix. Set in the early 1990s, when Her Majesty’s Customs and … Continue reading How Neil Forsyth turned Britain’s undercover Customs officers into Netflix crime drama Legends →

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From Ozark to M.I.A: Bill Dubuque on his new Peacock show and writing ordinary people into extraordinary danger

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M.I.A. creator Bill Dubuque tells DQ how he built Peacock’s Miami-set revenge thriller, why ordinary people make the best protagonists and when he is happy to hand a series over to others.

 

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Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham climb aboard Prime Video action comedy series Ride or Die

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FIRST LOOK: Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham team up in action comedy series Ride or Die, which will debut worldwide on Prime Video on July 15, 2026.

Ride or Die follows best friends Debbie Claybourne (Spencer) and Judith Burton (Waddingham), who thought they knew everything about each other, except Judith turns out to be an international assassin. When a mysterious figure emerges from Judith’s past and a hit goes horribly wrong, both of their worlds are turned upside down as they’re forced to go on the run together. It’s a race against time and a road trip across Europe, with law enforcement, highly trained assassins, and some very dangerous criminals at their heels.

Ride or Die also stars Bill Nighy, Ed Skrein, Sylvia Hoeks, Calam Lynch, Savannah Steyn, Jamie Parker and Jacky Ido.

The series is created by Tessa Coates, who executive produces alongside showrunner Matt Miller and director Peyton Reed.

It is produced by Paramount Television Studios, Amazon MGM Studios as well as Andy and Barbara Muschietti’s Double Dream and Octavia Spencer’s Orit Entertainment.

Coates, Miller and Reed executive produce alongside Spencer for Orit Entertainment; Waddingham; Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, and Irene Yeung for Double Dream; Brian Clisham; and Stephanie Kluft.

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Prime Video hires Elle with Reese Witherspoon-backed Legally Blonde prequel

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TRAILER: Lexi Minetree takes on the role made famous by Reese Witherspoon in Elle, a prequel to feature film Legally Blonde that will debut worldwide on Prime Video on July 1.

Witherspoon is an executive producer on the series, which has already been commissioned for a second season.

Season one follows Elle Woods (Minetree) before she was a fish-out-of-water at Harvard, opening in 1995 as a fish in the tumultuous waters of high school where she encounters tricky friendships, forbidden romance and questionable fashion choices. Through it all, Elle uses her family as a touchstone, and forms an even tighter bond to her mother, proving that they can get through anything life throws their way as long as they have each other.

The S1 cast includes June Diane Raphael as Elle’s mother Eva and Tom Everett Scott as her father Wyatt, alongside Jacob Moskovitz, Gabrielle Policano, Chandler Kinney, Zac Looker, and Amy Pietz.

Recurring cast members include Jessica Belkin, Danielle Chand, Matt Oberg, Chloe Wepper, Logan Shroyer, Sharon Taylor, David Burtka, Brad Harder, Kayla Maisonet, Lisa Yamada and James Van Der Beek.

The series, produced by Amazon MGM Studios in association with Hello Sunshine, is created by Laura Kittrell (High School, Insecure). Elle is co-showrun and executive produced by Kittrell and Caroline Dries.

Witherspoon, Lauren Neustadter, Amanda Brown and Marc Platt are executive producers. Jason Moore (Pitch Perfect) directed the first two episodes of season one and is also an executive producer. Bryan J Raber and Asmita Paranjape are producers. Josie Craven and Jen Regan are supervising producers.

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Disney+ trails new ‘wrong-com’ Alice & Steve starring Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement

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TRAILER: Nicola Walker, Jemaine Clement, Joel Fry and Yali Topol Margalith star in Alice and Steve, a ‘wrong-com’ from writer Sophie Goodhart that debuts on Disney+ in the UK and Hulu in the US on June 8.

The six-part series stars Walker as Alice, who is devastated when her best friend Steve (Clement) starts dating her 26-year-old daughter Izzy (Margalith). She’s going to lose her best friend and her daughter in one fell swoop. Alice tries everything she can to end the relationship. Unfortunately for her, Steve’s more than ready for the attack, and what begins as a perfect friendship, devolves into an all-out feud.

The Hulu original series is created and written by Goodhart (Sex Education), produced by Clerkenwell Films (Baby Reindeer) and directed by Tom Kingsley (Stath Lets Flats).

It premieres on June 8 with all six episodes available on Disney+ in the UK and Ireland and Hulu in the US.

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Alfonso Herrera and Fernanda Castillo on moving into Prime Video’s The House of the Spirits with Isabel Allende adaptation

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With La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits) now streaming on Prime Video, stars Alfonso Herrera and Fernanda Castillo speak to DQ about playing a pair of siblings in this epic, multi-generational family saga based on the groundbreaking novel by Isabel Allende.

 

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