Comedy about a Hollywood film being shot in Ireland

Sky has ordered a comedy-drama from Chris O’Dowd about a Hollywood film being shot in smalltown Ireland.

The IT Crowd star  created and directed  Small Town, Big Story – which has just started shooting.

The six-part series is set in the fictional town of Drumbán, a 'rural village of rattled misfits' and revolves around what happens when a Hollywood production rolls into town and ‘throws the spotlight on a secret that’s been kept hidden since the eve of the Millennium’.

Christina Hendricks stars as Wendy Patterson, a local girl done good as a hot-shot television producer, who returns to her hometown from LA.  Paddy Considine plays Drumbán’s local doctor and pillar of the community Seamus Proctor, and Eileen Walsh is his wife Catherine.

David Rawle – who starred alongside O’Dowd  in Moone Boy – plays their son Sony, with  Leia Murphy as daughter Joanne. The cast also includes Patrick Martins, Evanne Kilgallon, Andrew Bennett , Ruth McCabe and David Wilmot.

Small Town, Big Story  is expected. launch on Sky and streaming service Now next year.

The broadcaster points out that as the show is an Equity production, filmed in the UK & Ireland, it is compliant with the actors’ strike currently paralysing Hollywood 

Produced by: Playground and FilmNation Entertainment, in association with Sky Studios
Executive produers: Colin Callender, Scott Huff, Stefanie Berk, Milan Popelka, Alex Moody, Christina Hendricks, Chris O’Dowd
Series producer: Liz Gill
Directors: Chris O’Dowd, Catherine Morshead, Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman

Published: 8 Sep 2023