who is still best recognized for her role as Sansa Stark on Game of Thrones—plays real-life jewel thief Joan Hannington from the 1980s. After leaving a disastrous marriage as a single mother, Hannington turned to a life of crime, beginning with what would later become a signature move: swallowing jewels. Painful, but very profitable. The program is bursting with color and style from the 1980s as Joan enters and exits jewelry stores under different disguises and becomes involved in London’s criminal underworld. While some real-life names have been modified, Hannington herself collaborated with writer Anna Symon (Mrs. Wilson and The Essex Serpent).
Joan will debut in the US on The CW on October 2 and in the UK on ITV and ITVX on September 29.
Humor is a specialty of Armando Iannucci, the man behind the beloved satires Veep and The Thick of It. The filmmaker of movies like Skyfall and 1917, Sam Mendes, is not. However, in collaboration with writer Jon Brown, they created this comedy series, with Mendes helming the first episode, which centers on the mayhem that occurs during a film crew’s filming of a superhero picture. In the film Tecto, Daniel Brühl portrays an arty-type director who is stumbling to bring to life a character whose superpower is causing earthquakes.
