Peacock announced today the straight-to-series order of Ponies, a new espionage thriller starring Emmy Award® nominee Emilia Clarke, who also serves as executive producer.
Set in Moscow in 1977, Ponies centers on two “ponies” — “persons of no interest” in spy speak — who work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. Then their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR.
With this, the pair become CIA operatives. Bea (Emilia Clarke, Game of Thrones, Me Before You) 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.
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.
Ponies will debut in the US on Peacock (date tba). Stay tuned for updates.
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When Women Kill by Alia Trabucco Zerán (English translation of Las homicidas)
Las homicidas by Alia Trabucco Zerán
