The BBC and ZDF are teaming as much as co-produce a “flirty,” darkly comedian spy drama set in Nineteen Eighties Berlin and created by Emma Moran, who wrote Disney+ collection Extraordinary.
Introduced to coincide with Collection Mania in Lille, Honey might be made by Killing Eve producer Sid Mild Movies. The six-part collection is produced in affiliation with Fifth Season.
Right here’s the logline: “East Berlin, 1982. Marta, 24, is a deep cowl agent for MI6. Surrounded by enemies and consistently beneath menace of her cowl being blown, she tries her hardest to keep away from detection by Friedrich Bauman, the brand new Head of Counter Espionage for the Stasi.
“Discovering herself caught between Friedrich and the reckless, conceited (and extremely enticing…) CIA operative Aaron Neeland, she is blind-sided by want on this Chilly Warfare menage-a-trois. The danger of being garrotted or incarcerated is nothing in comparison with the horrifying ordeal of falling in love.”
Honey was commissioned by Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC drama, and Frank Seyberth, Head of Coproduction, Worldwide Fiction, for ZDF. Moran is the lead author and government producer. Emme Hoy (Renegade Nell) can also be a author on the collection. It’s government produced by Sally Woodward Mild and Lee Morris for BBC Studios-owned Sid Mild Movies and the producer is Christopher Corridor.
Woodward Mild mentioned: “Set towards the stark brutalism of East Germany, the characters and storylines in Honey are sensible, violent and extremely sexually charged. Emma’s scripts are characteristically take-no-prisoners witty, subtle and pacy whereas quietly and desperately romantic.”
