Chris O’Dowd’s new Irish-set show gets first-look trailer

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Chris O'Dowd's new show gets first-look trailer Sky

Sky has released the trailer for Chris O'Dowd's Small Town, Big Story, a new dramatic comedy set in Ireland.

The IT Crowd and Bridesmaids actor has created and is directing the six-part series, and has a small cameo part too.

The show's leads are Mad Men's Christina Hendricks and House of the Dragon's Paddy Considine.

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Set in the fictional rural town of Drumbán, the quiet lives of the locals are upturned when a big TV production unit moves in.

But it's more than just the clash of cultures. Hendrick's big American producer Wendy secretly has plenty of history with the town — and Considine's family man and doctor Séamus in particular.

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"I wrote this in the utter f**king pits of lockdown, which is why I think it took an almost cosmic turn and became something quite out of your head. I was in lockdown in Canada, where we were shooting another movie, when the opportunity to write something came along," O'Dowd told Variety of the show in October.

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"It’s the only time I’ve ever felt in my life where I wasn’t really in control. I was just struggling to keep awake to write down all of these thoughts flowing through me. It was great craic."

2025 will also see the premiere of the eighth and final season of another of O'Dowd's big shows, the hit animated Netflix comedy Big Mouth.

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When it was announced in 2023 that the show would be ending, co-creator and star Nick Kroll told Deadline: "If you would have told adolescent Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg that middle school would take eight years to finish, they would have been like, 'Yeah, that sounds about right.' This seems like it will never end."

Small Town, Big Story will premiere on Thursday, February 27 on Sky and NOW in the UK and Ireland.


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