First look at Niamh Algar, Tom Hollander in Italy-shot 'The Iris Affair' for Sky

Sky has revealed the first look at Niamh Algar and Tom Hollander in The Iris Affair, written, created and showrun by Neil Cross, creator of Luther.

Algar stars as Iris Nixon and Hollander as Cameron Beck in the eight-part series, directed by Terry McDonough whose credits include Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, and Sarah O’Gorman, of A Gentleman in Moscow and The Witcher.

When enigmatic genius Iris Nixon (Algar) cracks a string of complex online puzzles, she’s led to a piazza in Florence where she meets charismatic entrepreneur Cameron Beck (Hollander). He invites her to come and work for him to unlock a powerful and top-secret piece of technology. Her curiosity piqued, she accepts. But when Iris discovers its dangerous potential, she steals the journal containing the device’s activation sequence—and vanishes.

What follows is a relentless pursuit, from a remote cabin in Sardinia through the bustling streets of Rome, as Cameron races to find Iris in a high-stakes game where trust is dangerous and failure could be catastrophic.

The cast also includes Kristofer Hivju (Game of Thrones, Force Majeure), Harry Lloyd (Arcane, Marcella), Meréana Tomlinson (The Trials), Sacha Dhawan (The Great, Doctor Who), Maya Sansa (Good Morning, Night, Dormant Beauty), Peter Sullivan (Poldark, The Borgias), Debi Mazar (Younger, Entourage), Marco Leonardi (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, Anime Nere), Angela Bruce (Silver Haze, Doctor Who) and Lorenzo De Moor (A Simple Favor 2, Dolce Fine Giornata).

The Iris Affair is a Sky Studios and Fremantle co-production. Wildside, a Fremantle company, provided production services in Italy.

The series executive producer is Tim Bricknell (The Power, Taboo). Susan E. Connolly and Ian Scott McCullough are writing episodes. Executive producers are Adrian Sturges for Sky Studios; Neil Cross and Terry McDonough; and Jenni Sherwood and Dante Di Loreto for Fremantle.

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