Disney+ is boarding six-part comedy Alice and Steve (working title), greenlighting the project out of the UK with Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement in the leads.
The series hails from Clerkenwell Films, the BBC Studios-backed label behind The End of the F***ing World and Somewhere Boy. Sophie Goodhart (Sex Education) created the show and serves as executive producer.
The premise skews sharp and awkward: longtime best friends Alice (Walker) and Steve (Clement) are pulled into emotional freefall when Steve starts dating Alice’s 26-year-old daughter, Izzy—played by Yali Topol Margalith, most recently seen in The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Tom Kingsley, coming off BAFTA wins for This Is Going to Hurt and Stath Lets Flats, is on board to direct. Also in the ensemble: Joel Fry as Alice’s husband Daniel, and Marcia Warren as her sharp-tongued mother, Val.
Billed as a “will-they-won’t-they anti-rom-com,” the series leans into generational chaos, offbeat romance, and the slow-motion wreckage of friendships buckling under bad decisions.
Filming is already underway in London, with Lee Mason executive producing for Disney+.
The order builds out Disney+’s UK originals strategy, which has leaned into comedy and drama hybrids with international appeal. No release date has been announced.
