Yahoo Lifestyle TVLine Items: White Lotus Vet Joins Emilia Clarke Series, Deal or No Deal Island Season 2 Trailer and More
Haley Lu Richardson is joining the CIA alongside Emilia Clarke.
The White Lotus vet has boarded the Peacock espionage thriller Ponies, starring Game of Thrones alum Clarke, our sister site Variety reports.
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Co-created by David Iserson (Mr. Robot, The Spy Who Dumped Me) and Susanna Fogel (The Spy Who Dumped Me, Chasing Life) and set in Moscow circa 1977, the series follows two “PONIES” (“persons of no interest” in intelligence speak) who “work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives,” reads the official synopsis.
“Bea (Clarke) is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants,” the description continues. “Her cohort, Twila (Richardson), is a small-town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless. Together, they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place.”
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* Deal or No Deal Island will return for Season 2 with a two-hour premiere on Tuesday, Jan. 7 at 8/7c on NBC, before moving to its regular timeslot on Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 9 pm. Watch a trailer, featuring a cast of reality TV legends and rookies:
* PBS Masterpiece’s upcoming four-part series Miss Austen — starring Keeley Hawes (Bodyguard) and Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones) — will premiere Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 9 pm.
* The special Josh Groban & Friends Go Home for the Holidays will air Friday, Dec. 20 at 9 pm on CBS. The program will feature “stories, music, comedy and a live adoption on stage, celebrating the creation of a new family. Musical performances include holiday classics, new releases and original duets with Groban and his guests, including James Bay, Jennifer Hudson, Tori Kelly and The War And Treaty.”
* Bookie Season 2 will premiere Thursday, Dec. 12 on Max, with episodes dropping weekly until the season finale on Thursday, Jan. 30. Watch a trailer:
* Netflix has released a trailer for The Madness, a new conspiracy thriller starring Colman Domingo, and premiering Thursday, Nov. 28:
* Netflix has released a trailer for the movie Back in Action, in which Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx play marrieds pulled back into their life as CIA spies:
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