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Doll & Em will TX on Tuesday 18th February at 10pm on  Sky Living HD and will be available to download on Sky Go from 11th February at 10pm.

 “Doll & Em is ultimately a love letter of emotional honesty – raw stuff on professional inequality and personal rivalry – and bracing wit by and between two very talented women.”

BFI / The London Film Festival 2013

"Swinging from a warm and honest look at friendship to an awkward and cynical glimpse into how fame and success can change everything, this is meta-fiction at its finest."

Radio Times

Real-life best friends and British actresses Emily Mortimer [The Newsroom, Shutter Island, Match Point] and Dolly Wells [Some Girls, The Mighty Boosh,], write and star in Sky Living’s razor-sharp original new comedy “Doll & Em” – an honest and satirically funny take on the joy and pain of female friendship.

Following a critically acclaimed premiere at 2013’s London Film Festival, and already acquired by HBO in the US, the hotly anticipated “Doll & Em” continues to demonstrate Sky Living’s commitment to investing in original, quality programming and to working with some of the biggest names in the business both in front of and behind the camera. It heralds a raft of new original comedy premiering on the channel in 2014.

A semi-improvised piece, the series explores what happens when a Hollywood actress hires her childhood friend to be her personal assistant while making a film in Los Angeles. A bittersweet tale painting a funny and intimate portrait of female friendship, “Doll & Em”sees Wells and Mortimer play fictional versions of themselves. This pastiche of friendship set amidst the backdrop of the glossy world of Hollywood packs a warm entertainment punch, whilst delivering important emotional truths across the series.

When things don’t work out between Doll and her boyfriend, there’s no-one the London-based waitress would rather turn to than her best pal, Em. Friends since childhood, they’re there for each other through thick and thin, despite now living thousands of miles apart thanks to Em’s glittering movie career. Arriving in LA for some much-needed TLC, Doll becomes Em’s assistant to help her out while she’s making her biggest film yet. Em claims it’s just a title, though: Doll won’t actually have to do any work.

Being Em’s assistant soon proves to be less straightforward than it first appeared. With ever more demands being made of her, Doll finds herself having more in common with the crew than her lifelong friend. And as Doll enjoys a romantic liaison with Em’s producer, Em begins to feel increasingly alienated, not to mention overwhelmed by her demanding film role. With their friendship becoming more complicated than either of them could have ever imagined, it seems that Doll and Em’s relationship might not be so unbreakable after all.

Filmed on location in Los Angeles and London, “Doll & Em”features a number of surprise cameo appearances from someA-list Hollywood stars and is directed and co-written by AzazelJacobs. The series is produced by King Bee Productions, EmilyMortimer and husband Alessandro Nivola’s production company, andis executive produced by BAFTA Award winner Andrew Eaton(The Trip, Rush).

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Notes to editor

For further information please contact:

Jakki Lewis, Publicity Manager, Sky Living HD

Jakki.Lewis@bskyb.com

+44 207 032 1494 / +44 7710 579911

For images: stillsdepartment@bskyb.com

 

ABOUT SKY LIVING

Sky Living HD is the channel where characters collide. It embodies engaging storytelling, key characters and intricate relationships in the broader sense of the word. Sky Living offers a place for grown up escapism and is the number one pay channel among women in pay homes.

Following Sky’s recent commitment to investing £600million a year in home-grown programming by 2014, Sky Living last autumn launched a fantastic slate of new shows, starting with; The Face, with  Naomi Campbell,followed by Drama Matters featuring;  Anna Friel, Katherine Kelly, Suranne Jones and Russell Tovey, and also The Blacklist and Dracula.

Sky Living recently announced a raft of new original commissions which will see names including; Lorraine Pascale, Emily Mortimer, Dolly Wells, Jo Joyner, Chris Addison and Simon Blackwell join the channel.

Sky Living also remains a proven home for high quality US dramas with shows including; Hannibal, Elementary, Chicago Fire, Bones, Criminal Minds and Grey’s Anatomy and is committed to continually bringing its customers the best of the US. Elementary and The Blacklist are the channel’s most successful series’ to date regularly attracting consolidated audiences of over 1 million.

With its rich mix of US quality drama and original scripted content, Sky Living HD works with some of the best and brightest talent both on and off screen, bringing its customers the best possible entertainment offering.

Sky Living HD is available on channel 107 cementing its place in Sky’s entertainment portfolio where it sits alongside Sky1, Sky Atlantic and Sky Arts.