Emilia Clarke has a new TV project!
Peacock has given a straight-to-series order to 1970s espionage thriller PONIES, starring and executive produced by the 37-year-old actress, via Deadline.
Here’s a plot summary: “Set in Moscow in 1977, the series follows two PONIES (‘persons of no interest’ in intelligence speak) who 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 (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.”
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The project was co-created, co-written and executive produced by Susanna Fogel and David Iserson, and is executive produced by Jessica Rhoades. Susanna is set to direct, while David will serve as showrunner.
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