BBC Buys Second Season Of ‘State Of The Union’ – CB
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has acquired the second collection of Nick Hornby/Stephen Frears’ high-end quick kind collection State of the Union from Endeavor Content material. See-Noticed Movies’ second run, a Sundance TV authentic, strikes Stateside and options Brendan Gleeson, Patricia Clarkson and Esco Jouléy. Clarkson performs Ellen, a liberal campaigner who drags her conventional, self-made husband…
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has acquired the second collection of Nick Hornby/Stephen Frears’ high-end quick kind collection State of the Union from Endeavor Content material.
See-Noticed Movies’ second run, a Sundance TV authentic, strikes Stateside and options Brendan Gleeson, Patricia Clarkson and Esco Jouléy. Clarkson performs Ellen, a liberal campaigner who drags her conventional, self-made husband Scott (Gleeson) out of his consolation zone and right into a hipster Connecticut espresso store, the place they’ve 10 minutes earlier than their marriage counselling session to drink a espresso, collect their ideas and argue. Amongst the bickering additionally they begin to deconstruct their 30-year marriage, talk about betrayals from their previous, how they’re altering as folks, and what the way forward for their relationship may appear to be in a altering world.
The primary run, which was additionally acquired by the BBC, featured Chris O’Dowd and Rosamund Pike in an identical scenario.
The present will play out on BBC Two and VoD service BBC iPlayer.
Academy Award-nominated writer-director combo Nick Hornby and Stephen Frears are additionally behind collection two. Govt producers are Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Hornby and Frears. The collection producer is Sophie Reynolds.
“The impeccable solid convey to life Nick Hornby’s insightful, nuanced and pleasurable dissection of a relationship on the brink,” stated Sue Deeks, Head of Programme Acquisition, BBC.