Brought onto the market at Mipcom by Fifth Season, 'Honey' world premiered at the TV trade fair Monday evening Upcoming BBC-ZDF series ‘Honey,’ which had its world premiere Monday evening at Mipcom, isn’t your usual Cold War thriller. In the show, sold by Fifth Season, a young MI6 agent Martha (Ann Skelly) becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle in East Berlin in 1982, where she navigates a shadowy world of counterespionage. If the violence is really gory and the spy elements are really dangerous, then the sexy elements have to be really, really sexy,” said Emma Moran, lead writer and executive producer.
Before Monday’s screening, Moran admitted that she embraced the silliness, which is actually rooted in real life. They literally have prosthetic testicles in which they hide notes. Notes that would bring down civilization are stuffed in a plastic ball sack!
When you start from that benchmark, it’s not that hard to get the comedy in,” she laughed. I love the Q moments in Bond [movies].” She added: “There’s an innate comedy and absurdity to spying. You’re putting on a silly little costume and saying: ‘I’m someone else’,” she said.
Skelly deadpanned: “It’s the story of my life.” Skelly, known for “House of Guinness” and “The Nevers,” stars alongside Nate Mann, Jannis Niewöhner and Rory Kinnear. Sometimes, when you get through auditions as an actor, you go: ‘Crap, I’m going to have to learn all this.’ But now, I was really excited to do it,” she said. She’s just incredibly ambitious and full of confidence, but not quite the experience.
It’s so much fun to watch a character like that.” The role was challenging, also because of the cold weather in Lithuania where they filmed, but in the best possible way. I think it was the coldest winter they’d had in a really long time. Since the ’70s!” “It was challenging in the same way when you order a really big steak,” she joked.
With the love triangle dominating the show, it was so satisfying to play with these two poles of ‘I can’t say who I am, I can’t do this, I have to do something that way.’ Then, desires crashing into that felt just so rich for romance,” she said. Executive producer Sally Woodward Gentle (Sid Gentle Films, known for “Killing Eve”) agreed: They never wanted to make a “brown, turgid period show.” “We wanted to do something very different. Emma was really keen to bring up romance.
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