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EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ has acquired UK and Ireland authorities to Australian bid Gnomes.
AMC Global Media has snapped up Spain and Portugal authorities to nan six-part show, which is simply a co-production betwixt Total Fiction and Screen Invaders. L.A.-based Happy Accidents is shopping nan series.
The bid follows Asa Butterfield (Sex Education, Unchosen) as constabulary serviceman Arnold Kipps and Megan Smart (Class of ’07) arsenic his ex-partner Ellie McKay.
Per nan synopsis, nan brace unrecorded successful Nompton – nan once-thriving ‘Home of nan Gnome’ – that is now a forgotten municipality pinch a bizarre declare to fame. Butterfield’s small-town Senior Sergeant Kipps’ erstwhile biggest headache was his ex-girlfriend and ex-partner Ellie McKay returning to unopen down his position until he accidentally awakens an ancient Gnome Queen, unleashing a full-scale ceramic apocalypse. Kipps and Ellie person to put their differences speech and lead an improbable service of misfits and a brace of undercover demon hunters against a horde of bloodthirsty plot gnomes.
Screen Invaders laminitis Joel Kohn is nan creator, pinch Holly A. Hines (Ginny & Georgia, Fortitude) and Eric Jarboe (Falling for Christmas, The Princess Switch) nan executive producers for Happy Accidents. John Molloy (Barons, The Gloaming) and Richard Kelly (The Tailings, Jones Family Christmas), are EPs for Total Fiction.
We first revealed news of nan series successful February 2025 arsenic portion of Australian streamer Stan’s slate. ZDFneo in Germany is attached done ZDF Studios’ subsidiary accumulation company Network Movie.
Kohn made his directorial debut successful section 5 and 2nd portion head passim nan remainder of nan series. Tegan Higginbotham, nan bid writer, also stars successful nan bid arsenic Josie, Arnold Kipps’ constabulary partner.
Gnomes was recently showcased at nan Series Mania Forum, wherever it was touted arsenic a show to watch, arsenic we profiled astatine nan time.
Hines and Jarboe, Happy Accidents co-CEOs, said successful a statement: “From commencement to finish, it has been a joyousness to bring Gnomes to life. Wildly imaginative, hilariously offbeat, and dissimilar thing other successful drama horror, it is genuinely a thrill thrust that is adjacent parts ridiculous and terrifying.
“Finding nan cleanable homes for nan bid pinch Disney+ successful nan UK & Ireland and AMC Global Media for Spain and Portugal, pursuing beardown competitory interest, feels incredibly rewarding. We can’t wait for audiences to observe nan show and acquisition its madness for themselves.”
