Audiences will be transported to 1970s 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 will be available on Sky and steaming service NOW in the UK & Ireland. 

Moscow, 1977. Two ‘PONIES’ (‘persons of no interest’ in intelligence speak) 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 (Emilia Clarke) is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants. Her cohort, Twila (Haley Lu Richardson), 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.

PONIES also 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, executive producer and showrunner and Susanna Fogel (The Flight Attendant, The Spy Who Dumped Me) serves as co-creator, director, co-writer, executive producer. Mike Daniels (Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, The Village), Jessica Rhoades (Black Mirror, Station Eleven, Dirty John) and Emilia Clarke executive 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 deal with NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution was negotiated by Lucy Criddle.

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For further information please contact PONIES@premiercomms.com