Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has taken global on Peacock’s The Miniature Wife starring Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen.
SPT will sell the show produced by Media Res outside the States.
Revealed by Deadline last year, The Miniature Wife is a high-concept comedy that examines the power imbalances between spouses—played by Banks (Pitch Perfect) and Macfadyen (Succession, Deadpool & Wolverine)—who battle each other for supremacy after a technological accident induces the ultimate relationship crisis.
Banks and Macfadyen are joined by Zoe Lister-Jones (Slip, Beau is Afraid), Sofia Rosinsky (Paper Girls, Death and Other Details), O-T Fagbenle (The Handmaid’s Tale, Presumed Innocent), and Sian Clifford (Fleabag, The Ballad of Wallis Island) as series regulars. Ronny Chieng (The Daily Show, Crazy Rich Asians), Aasif Mandvi (Evil, The Daily Show), Rong Fu (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Hello (Again)) and Tricia Black (Small Achievable Goals, Pretty Hard Cases) round out the cast in recurring roles.
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“The Miniature Wife is ‘must have content’,” said Mike Wald, Co-President, Distribution & Networks, SPT. “Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen are an undeniable pairing. The humor is both distinctive and smart, and it’s a heck of a lot of fun.”
The Miniature Wife is created by Jennifer Ames and Steve Turner (Boardwalk Empire, Goliath), who serve as showrunners and executive producers. Greg Mottola (Superbad, The Daytrippers) who directs the first two episodes, is an executive producer alongside Banks, Macfadyen, Michael Aguilar (I’m Dying Up Here, Kidding), Suzanne Heathcote (The Crowded Room, Killing Eve), and Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer for Media Res.