The BBC and ZDF are teaming up to co-produce a “flirty,” darkly comic spy drama set in 1980s Berlin and created by Emma Moran, who wrote Disney+ series Extraordinary.
Announced to coincide with Series Mania in Lille, Honey will be made by Killing Eve producer Sid Gentle Films. The six-part series is produced in association with Fifth Season.
Here’s the logline: “East Berlin, 1982. Marta, 24, is a deep cover agent for MI6. Surrounded by enemies and constantly under threat of her cover being blown, she tries her hardest to avoid detection by Friedrich Bauman, the new Head of Counter Espionage for the Stasi.
“Finding herself caught between Friedrich and the reckless, arrogant (and incredibly attractive…) CIA operative Aaron Neeland, she is blind-sided by desire in this Cold War menage-a-trois. The risk of being garrotted or incarcerated is nothing compared to the horrifying ordeal of falling in love.”
Honey was commissioned by Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC drama, and Frank Seyberth, Head of Coproduction, International Fiction, for ZDF. Moran is the lead writer and executive producer. Emme Hoy (Renegade Nell) is also a writer on the series. It is executive produced by Sally Woodward Gentle and Lee Morris for BBC Studios-owned Sid Gentle Films and the producer is Christopher Hall.
Woodward Gentle said: “Set against the stark brutalism of East Germany, the characters and storylines in Honey are smart, violent and highly sexually charged. Emma’s scripts are characteristically take-no-prisoners witty, sophisticated and pacy while quietly and desperately romantic.”
