Peacock has given a straight-to-series collection order of Nineteen Seventies espionage thriller PONIES, starring and govt produced by Emilia Clarke (Sport of Thrones). The venture, co-created, co-written and govt produced by Susanna Fogel (The Flight Attendant) and David Iserson (Mr. Robotic) and exec produced by Jessica Rhoades (Black Mirror), beforehand had a cast-contingent blinking inexperienced mild, which Clarke’s casting became a agency order.
Set in Moscow in 1977, the collection follows two “PONIES” (“individuals of no curiosity” in intelligence converse) who work anonymously as secretaries within the American Embassy. That’s till their husbands are killed below mysterious circumstances within the USSR, and the pair grow to be CIA operatives. Bea (Clarke) is an over-educated, Russian-speaking baby of Soviet immigrants. Her cohort, Twila, is a small-town lady who’s as abrasive as she is fearless. Collectively, they work to uncover an unlimited Chilly Struggle conspiracy and remedy the thriller that made them widows within the first place
Fogel is ready to direct, whereas Iserson will function showrunner. The 2 govt produce PONIES with Rhoades through her Pacesetter Productions, with the corporate’s EVP Alison Mo Massey serving as co-executive producer alongside Katherine Bridle. The collection is produced by Common Tv, a division of Common Studio Group.
Greatest identified for her position as Daenerys Targaryen on HBO’s Sport Of Thrones, which earned her 4 Emmy nominations, Clarke is in manufacturing on the Amazon restricted collection Legal, additionally starring Charlie Hunnam and Adria Arjona. She was final seen starring within the Sundance award-winning movie The Pod Technology reverse Chiwetel Ejiofor, and in Marvel’s restricted collection Secret Invasion reverse Samuel L. Jackson. She is repped by CAA, UK’s Hamilton Hodell, Vary and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
