Chris O’Dowd is penning a Sky comedy-drama starring Christina Hendricks and Paddy Considine about a Hollywood production that disturbs the peace in a fictional town in Ireland.
Small Town, Big Story has started filming on location in Ireland under a UK Equity contract and follows goings-on in Drumbán, a rural village of rattled misfits. When a major Hollywood production rolls into town, a spotlight is thrown on a secret that has been kept hidden since the eve of the Millennium.
Hendricks (Mad Men) is playing Wendy Patterson, a local girl done good as a hot-shot television producer, who returns to her hometown from LA with the Hollywood production in tow, while House of the Dragon’s Considine is local doctor and pillar of the community Seamus Proctor. The show also stars David Rawle, who reunites with Sky’s Moone Boy creator and co-star O’Dowd. Other castmembers are Eileen Walsh (Catastrophe), Leia Murphy (Fair City), Patrick Martins (The Confessions of Frannie Langton), Evanne Kilgallon (Obituary), Andrew Bennett (The Quiet Girl), Ruth McCabe (Aisha) and David Wilmot (The Alienist).
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NBCUniversal Global Distribution is shopping Small Town, Big Story, which is being produced by Colin Callender’s Playground and FilmNation Entertainment. EPs are Callender and Scott Huff for Playground, Stefanie Berk and Milan Popelka for FilmNation Entertainment, and Alex Moody for Sky Studios. Hendricks and O’Dowd are also execs, Liz Gill is series producer and directors include O’Dowd, Catherine Morshead, Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman.
Sky is also making big-budget scripted offerings including Julianne Moore-starrer Mary & George and a Day of the Jackal remake with Peacock featuring Eddie Redmayne.
Sky stressed that Small Town, Big Story is an Equity production and that all cast agreements are compliant with SAG-AFTRA rules and conditions, which were contracted pre-strike.
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