Peacock saddles up for PONIES

FIRST LOOK: Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke heads the cast of PONIES, an espionage thriller debuting in the US on Peacock on January 15, 2026.

Moscow, 1977. Two “PONIES” (“persons of no interest” in intelligence speak) work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives. Bea (Clarke) is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants.

Her cohort, Twila (Haley Lu Richardson), is a small-town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless. Together, they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place.

The eight-part series also stars Adrian Lester, Artjom Gilz, Nicholas Podany, Petro Ninovskyi and Vic Michaelis.

It is produced by Universal Television, with David Iserson and Susanna Fogel as co-creators and Iserson and Mike Daniels as showrunners. Fogel is the director.

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