New comedy series Run launches on Sky Comedy on 15th April
New comedy series Run launches on Sky Comedy on 15th April
Written and produced by Vicky Jones (Killing Eve, Fleabag), new half-hour comedy series Run (8 episodes), starts on Wednesday 15th April on Sky Comedy and NOW TV. Run from HBO, follows a woman whose humdrum life is thrown upside down when she receives a text from her college sweetheart inviting her to drop everything and meet him in New York to fulfil the pact they made 17 years earlier.
Starring Emmy® winner Merritt Wever (Godless, Nurse Jackie) and Domhnall Gleeson (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Ex Machina), Run is a romantic comedic thriller about a woman, Ruby Richardson (Wever) who walks away from her ordinary life in the suburbs to revisit her past with her college boyfriend, Billy Johnson (Gleeson), with whom she made a pact 17 years prior that if either one of them texted the word “run” and the other replied with the same, they would drop everything and meet in Grand Central Station and travel across America together.
Recurring guest stars for season one include Emmy®, Golden Globe and SAG winner, Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Solo: A Star Wars Story) as Laurel, a woman who Ruby and Billy meet on their journey; Rich Sommer (Mad Men) as Laurence, Ruby’s husband; Tamara Podemski (Coroner) as police detective Babe Cloud and Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife) as Fiona, Billy’s former PA.
Executive produced by Vicky Jones, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Jenny Robins, Kate Dennis, Emily Leo and Oliver Roskill of Wigwam Films, Run is produced by eOne, the studio behind acclaimed HBO series Sharp Objects.
Executive producers Vicky Jones and Phoebe Waller-Bridge founded the DryWrite Theatre Company. In 2013, Jones directed Waller-Bridge’s stage production “Fleabag,” which was later adapted into an Emmy®, BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning television series. Jones also served as a writer on Killing Eve, the Emmy® nominated drama series, which was created by Waller-Bridge.
Sky Comedy is the new home of the very best of U.S. Comedy from HBO, NBC and Showtime. Boasting a host of brand-new and acclaimed series, it is a one-stop shop for all the greatest comedy from the other side of the Atlantic, offering more top-quality, binge-worthy laughs than you can shake a remote control at.
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About Sky Comedy
Sky Comedy has got new and exciting, critically lauded series such as Mrs. Fletcher starring Kathryn Hahn and The Righteous Gemstones, created by and starring Danny McBride with John Goodman, Adam DeVine and Edi Patterson. Sky Comedy will also air all-new series of returning hit U.S. shows such as Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ballers starring Dwayne Johnson and Insecure created by and starring Issa Rae, as well as The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Late Late Show and Saturday Night Live.
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