25th January 2021:
Safe Space
A new 8 x 60 min comedy drama series starring BAFTA winning comedian Greg Davies (Man Down, Cuckoo, Taskmaster). Michael Leer (Greg Davies) is a psychotherapist in a small market town in England. A likable eccentric and one of life’s listeners, Michael is seemingly a safe pair of hands. But Michael’s clients are sharing their inner secrets and fears with a fantasist who will no longer sit in the shadows. The advice Michael Leer dispenses is that which suits his own desperate need to control them. For Michael’s clients their ‘Safe Space’ is no longer safe at all.
The series was commissioned by Zai Bennett, Managing Director of Content at Sky and Jon Mountague, Director of Comedy at Sky Studios. Written and created by Greg Davies and Stephen Morrison, Safe Space is Produced by Avalon (Taskmaster, Breeders, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, The Russell Howard Hour, Spitting Image), Executive Producers are Greg Davies, James Taylor, Jon Thoday, Richard Allen-Turner and Toby Welch. Pilot directed by Richard Laxton (Mrs Wilson, Mum, Burton and Taylor) and produced by Spencer Millman (Man Down).
Russell Howard’s Back To The Future Stand Up Show (WT)
Russell Howard will be travelling around New Zealand and Australia in this new 3 x 60 min travelogue punctuated by stand-up comedy.
Russell is the first stand-up comedian from the Northern Hemisphere to perform in New Zealand since the global lockdown. Whilst on tour we will see Russell explore the country, meet locals and experience quintessentially Kiwi activities before embarking to Australia.
The series was commissioned by Zai Bennett, Managing Director of Content at Sky and Phil Edgar Jones, Director of Sky Arts and Entertainment at Sky. Shirley Jones is the Commissioning Editor. Produced by Avalon (Taskmaster, Breeders, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, The Russell Howard Hour, Spitting Image) and Executive Produced by James Taylor, Jamie Isaacs and Jay Taylor.
Sky’s full slate announcement can be found here
For more information please contact:
At Avalon
Dan Lloyd
DLloyd@avalonuk.com
Victoria Wedderburn
VWedderburn@avalonuk.com
At Sky
Charlotte Mitchell
07896 259717
Charlotte.mitchell2@sky.uk
Annabel Combe
07970 224 771
Annabel.combe@sky.uk
Dominic Collett
07845603562
Dominic.collett@sky.uk
