Sharon Horgan lands her first US series | Divorce to star Sarah Jessica Parker

Sharon Horgan lands her first US series

Divorce to star Sarah Jessica Parker

Sharon Horgan’s American comedy Divorce has been picked up for a full series by HBO.

The show will be Sarah Jessica Parker’s first major TV role in a decade, following the end of Sex And The City. She will play a woman who decides to end her marriage but finds divorce a much more protracted process than she expected.

HBO has commissioned a full series on the back of a pilot, which also starred Flight Of The Conchords co-creator Jemaine Clement in a guest role.

This is the first of several projects Horgan had in the States to have been commissioned for a series.

Pilot American versions of her British shows Pulling and Dead Boss were not picked up; nor was her project for the ABC network, Bad Management, about a self-centered female boss at a high-end department store. Both Bad Management and Dead Boss were co-written with stand-up Holly Walsh.

However her recent acclaimed Channel 4 series Catastrophe, co-created with co-star Rob Delaney, will be available in the States via Amazon from June. The critically acclaimed has been renewed for a second series. 

Horgan will be an executive producer of Divorce through her company Merman, and the series will co-star Thomas Haden Church, Molly Shannon and Talia Balsam.

Published: 17 Apr 2015

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