Peacock has announced that it has granted a straight-to-series order to The Miniature Wife, a romantic dramedy series starring and executive produced by Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect, The Hunger Games) and Matthew Macfadyen (Succession, Deadpool & Wolverine).
Created by Jennifer Ames and Steve Turner (Boardwalk Empire, Goliath), who will also showrun and executive produce, the series is based on a short story by Manuel Gonzalez and is described as “a high-concept marital dramedy examining the power (im)balances between spouses, Lindy (Banks) and Les (Macfadyen), who battle each other for supremacy after a technological accident induces the ultimate relationship crisis.”
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The Miniature Wife is being produced for Peacock by Media Res, the studio behind acclaimed series The Morning Show and Pachinko.
