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[08/26/24 - 11:22 AM]
Peacock Announces Straight-to-Series Order of Espionage Thriller "PONIES" Starring Emmy Award-Nominated Actress Emilia Clarke
Emmy Award-nominated director Susanna Fogel serves as executive producer, director, and co-writer alongside Emmy Award-nominated executive producer David Iserson who will serve as co-writer and showrunner.
[via press release from Peacock]

PEACOCK ANNOUNCES STRAIGHT-TO-SERIES ORDER OF ESPIONAGE THRILLER "PONIES" STARRING EMMY AWARD-NOMINATED ACTRESS EMILIA CLARKE

Series Comes from Susanna Fogel, David Iserson, Jessica Rhoades and Universal Television

www.PeacockTV.com

· Peacock has announced the straight-to-series series order of espionage thriller PONIES, starring Emmy Award-nominated actress Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones, Me Before You). Clarke will also serve as executive producer.

· Emmy Award-nominated director Susanna Fogel (The Flight Attendant, The Spy Who Dumped Me) serves as executive producer, director, and co-writer alongside Emmy Award-nominated executive producer David Iserson (Mr. Robot, New Girl) who will serve as co-writer and showrunner. PONIES was co-created by Fogel and Iserson. PGA Award winner Jessica Rhoades (Black Mirror, Station Eleven, Dirty John) will serve as executive producer via her Pacesetter Productions with Pacesetter EVP Alison Mo Massey serving as co-executive producer. Katherine Bridle will serve as co-executive producer. The series is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

· Series Description: 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 (Emilia Clarke) is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants. Her cohort, Twila, 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.

ABOUT THE SERIES:

Co-Creator / Director / Co-Writer / Executive Producer: Susanna Fogel (The Flight Attendant, The Spy Who Dumped Me)

Co-Creator / Co-Writer / Executive Producer / Showrunner: David Iserson (Mr. Robot, New Girl)

Executive Producer: Jessica Rhoades (Black Mirror, Station Eleven, Dirty John

Star / Executive Producer: Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones, Me Before You)

Co-Executive Producer: Katherine Bridle, Alison Mo Massey

Studio: Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group

Format: Espionage thriller





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