EXCLUSIVE: Tubi is about to premiere the Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton, Derry Ladies) and Lydia West (It’s A Sin, Inside Man) comedy collection Massive Temper solely within the U.S. and Canada in April.
The six-episode collection is written and created by Camilla Whitehill, directed by Rebecca Asher and produced by Fremantle’s Dancing Ledge Productions.
Massive Temper follows finest pals Maggie and Eddie (Coughlan and West, respectively)who’ve lived in one another’s pockets for ten years, via thick, skinny and a number of difficult eyebrow traits. However with the remainder of their lives looming, careers hanging within the stability and Maggie’s bipolar dysfunction making an unwelcome return to kind, Eddie begins to query whether or not this friendship is de facto of their finest pursuits.
It’s a pivotal level in each their lives, bringing to the floor these all-important questions – might sleeping together with your former Historical past instructor be the important thing to happiness? Is a basement Rat Resort a useful different to pest management? How do you cease your new psychiatrist from supplying you with fear dolls? With their twenties behind them, Maggie and Eddie’s relationship faces the longer term – can it survive?
“Massive Temper is a robust collection that’s unapologetically genuine,” stated Adam Lewinson, Chief Content material Officer, Tubi, in an announcement to Deadline. “Within the arms of creator Camilla Whitehill and director Rebecca Asher, Nicola and Lydia give superbly painful and comedic portrayals which might be rooted in reality. With the much-welcomed addition of Massive Temper to our slate of related comedies, Tubi is doubling down on content material that appeals to our fastest-growing section of younger and numerous viewers.”
“I’m ecstatic that Massive Temper will quickly be arriving stateside with Tubi, though I’m additionally partially satisfied it’s a prank performed by a cabal of my enemies as a result of it appears rather a lot too good to be true,” Whitehill shared. “I’m hoping America loves it, and that they identify an airport after me, which is far more possible over there as a result of they’ve extra airports than us.”
The forged additionally contains Niamh Cusack, Eamon Farren, Luke Fetherston, Kate Fleetwood, Rob Gilbert, Rebecca Lowman, Sally Phillips, Ukweli Roach and Amalia Vitale.
Massive Temper is govt produced by Lotte Beasley Mestriner, Laurence Bowen and Chris Carey for Dancing Ledge Productions and produced by Georgie Fallon. The casting director is Lauren Evans. BIG The collection was commissioned for Channel 4 within the UK by Commissioning Editor, Laura Riseam.
Fremantle is dealing with world distribution for the collection. The deal was brokered by Fremantle’s Lisa Honig, Senior EVP of Distribution North America with Sam Harowitz, VP of Acquisition and Partnerships at Tubi.
