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HBO and Sky’s ineligible play War has already formed its 2nd season.
George Kay‘s show, which was fixed a two-season bid from nan off, has brought successful Marisa Tomei (Spider-Man: Far From Home), Kelly Macdonald (Lanterns) and David Harewood (Sherwood) to lead nan adjacent lawsuit successful the returning series alongside Richard Schiff (Clemency). Series 2 has rolled cameras up of bid 1 launching later this year.
Joining nan main formed are Claire Skinner, Omari Douglas, Kadiff Kirwan, Douglas Booth, Charles Edwards, Luca Pasqualino, Rebecca Front, Alexandra Maria Lara, Linus Roache, Violet Braeckman, Sasha Behar, Sid Phoenix, Cornelius Booth and Megan Channell.
Season 2 will spot rival rule firms Cathcarts and Taylor & Byrne return connected an explosive defamation case.
The show’s first tally will prima Dominic West and Sienna Miller and is looking group to beryllium 1 of HBO and Sky’s splashiest launches of nan year. In that one, a high-profile divorcement lawsuit betwixt tech titan Morgan Henderson (West) and world movie prima Carla Duval (Sienna Miller) causes shockwaves.
Creator Kay is nan brains down shows for illustration Hijack and Lupin. Kay is lead writer, with additional episodes written by Kelly Jones, Jess Brittain, Catherine Shepherd, Yemi Oyefuwa and Krissie Ducker.
The series’ lead director is Ben Taylor (Sex Education, Catastrophe). War is co-produced by All3Media’s New Pictures and Observatory Pictures, successful relation pinch Sky and HBO. The bid is created, written and executive produced by Kay, alongside Willow Grylls (Gone, The Missing) and Imogen O’Sullivan (Champion) for New Pictures, and Taylor (Sex Education, Catastrophe), Susan Breen (The Woman successful nan Wall, Bad Sisters) and Megan Spanjian for Sky. The series producer is Matt Carver.
War will aerial connected Sky and streaming work Now successful nan UK, Ireland and Italy, and connected Sky and WOW successful Germany, Switzerland and Austria. It will aerial connected HBO and HBO Max successful nan U.S., and watercourse connected HBO Max successful Australia and Asia. International income will beryllium handled by NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution.
