Sky preview ‘The Iris Affair’ and ‘Task’

The productions will both air on the broadcaster later this year…

Sky has revealed the first-look images of Niamh Algar and Tom Hollander in The Iris Affair (previously Iris), a sun-drenched chase thriller written, created and show run by Neil Cross, the mastermind behind Luther.

Starring Algar as Iris Nixon and Hollander as Cameron Beck, the eight-part series is a tense and cinematic chase thriller that pits two brilliant minds against each other in a deadly game of hide and seek across Italy.

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 Iris Affair will be available later this year on Sky and streaming service NOW in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Fremantle is handling international sales of the series.

Also, Sky have released a trailer for forthcoming drama series Task, from creator Brad Ingelsby, debuts this September on Sky and streaming service NOW. Set in the working-class suburbs of Philadelphia, an FBI agent (Mark Ruffalo) heads a Task Force to put an end to a string of violent robberies led by an unsuspecting family man (Tom Pelphrey).

The series also stars Emilia Jones, Jamie McShane, Sam Keeley, Thuso Mbedu, Fabien Frankel, Alison Oliver, Raúl Castillo, Silvia Dionicio, Phoebe Fox and Martha Plimpton. All seven episodes will air weekly.