Sky & Starz Reveal Premiere Date For ‘Sweetpea’ Series Starring Ella Purnell

Sky and Starz’ Sweetpea will drop October 10.

The networks have also unveiled an extended second trailer for the six-part show to build buzz, which can be watched above. From Kirstie Swain, Sweetpea stars Yellowjackets’ Ella Purnell as Rhiannon Lewis, a quiet wallflower who develops a vengeful and intoxicatingly liberating taste for murder.

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The series, which will launch in October, is based on the cult novel by C.J. Skuse. Starz jumped aboard as U.S. co-producer earlier this year and Power of the Dog maker See-Saw Films is producing with its new Patrick Walters-led label fanboy.

Purnell is one of the hottest TV talents out there at present, having impressed as Jackie Taylor in Paramount+’s Yellowjackets and subsequently led Prime Video’s Fallout video game adpatation. She is joined by Nic?le Lecky (Mood, Sense8) playing Julia, Jon Pointing (Big Boys, Smothered) as Craig, Calam Lynch (Bridgerton) as AJ, Leah Harvey (Foundation) as Marina. Also starring are Jeremy Swift (Ted Lasso) as Norman and Dustin Demri-Burns (Slow Horses) as Jeff.

Sweetpea is a six-part series produced by See-Saw Films and fanboy in association with Sky Studios. Swain is writing with Krissie Ducker (Killing Eve), Laura Jayne Tunbridge and Selina Lim (Sex Education, Hanna). EPs are Purnell, director Ella Jones, Swain, Walters, Helen Gregory, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman. Zorana Piggott (Heartstopper) is the series producer. NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution handles international sales of the series on behalf of Sky Studios.

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