Audiences shall be transported to Nineteen Seventies Russia on 22 May with the arrival of new espionage thriller series PONIES, starring Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones, Me Before You) and Haley Lu Richardson (The White Lotus). All episodes of the Sky Exclusive series shall be obtainable on Sky and steaming service NOW within the UK & Ireland.
Moscow, 1977. Two ‘PONIES’ (‘persons of no interest’ in intelligence communicate) work anonymously as secretaries within the American Embassy. That is till their husbands are killed underneath mysterious circumstances within the USSR, and the pair turn into CIA operatives.
Bea (Emilia Clarke) is an over-educated, Russian-speaking youngster of Soviet immigrants. Her cohort, Twila (Haley Lu Richardson), is a small-town lady who’s as abrasive as she is fearless. (*22*), they work to uncover an enormous Cold War conspiracy and resolve the thriller that made them widows within the first place.
PONIES additionally stars Adrian Lester (Sandman, Day After Tomorrow), Artjom Gilz (Tar, Das Boot), Nicholas Podany (Saturday Night, Hello Tomorrow), Petro Ninovskyi (Shttl, Silence), Vic Michaelis (Very Important People, Upload).
David Iserson (Mr. Robot, New Girl) serves as co-creator, co-writer, government producer and showrunner and Susanna Fogel (The Flight Attendant, The Spy Who Dumped Me) serves as co-creator, director, co-writer, government producer. Mike Daniels (Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, The Village), Jessica Rhoades (Black Mirror, Station Eleven, Dirty John) and Emilia Clarke government produce, alongside co-executive producers Katherine Bridle, Alison Mo Massey, Jared Ian Goldman, Rosa Handelman.
PONIES is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. The take care of NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution was negotiated by Lucy Criddle.
