“Hugo” star Emily Mortimer to headline “Doll & Em” comedy

PanARMENIAN.Net - As the UK’s Sky Living ramps up its NBC co-production Dracula with Jonathan Rhys Meyers, it’s also commissioned a slate of new series with talent that includes The Newsroom’s Emily Mortimer and Emmy- and Oscar-nominated writer Simon Blackwell, Deadline said.

Mortimer stars in and created the six-part comedy Doll & Em, an L.A.-set female buddy show that will co-star her real-life best friend Dolly Wells, and come replete with surprise high-profile celebrity cameos.

Blackwell, whose credits include Veep, In The Loop and The Thick Of It, co-created new comedy Trying Again with actor Chris Addison, who starred in both In The Loop and The Thick Of It.

The eight-part show, about a man whose fiancée has an affair with her boss, has yet to finalize cast, but is set for production this summer.

The commissions follow last week’s announcements of the Sky/BBC America James Bond biopic Fleming along with a group of dramas involving Matt Smith, Idris Elba and Vanessa Redgrave which are all part of Sky’s drive to invest £600M in original content by 2014.