GoT star Emilia Clarke leads PONIES as spy thriller gets series order at Peacock

Comcast-owned US streamer Peacock has handed a straight-to-series order to PONIES, an espionage drama starring and executive produced by Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones, Me Before You).

Emilia Clarke

The project was co-created by Susanna Fogel (The Flight Attendant, The Spy Who Dumped Me) and David Iserson (Mr Robot, New Girl) and produced by Universal Television.

Set in 1977, PONIES, which stands for ‘persons of no interest,’ follows two spies who work anonymously as secretaries in the US embassy in Moscow until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR and they both become CIA operatives.

Fogel is executive producer, director and co-writer, while Iserson is exec producer, showrunner and co-writer.

Jessica Rhoades (Black Mirror, Station Eleven) is executive producing through her Pacesetter Productions, with the company’s exec VP, Alison Mo Massey, serving as co-executive producer. Katherine Bridle is also a co-exec producer.