Spy thriller “Ponies,” starring Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson, and “The Other Bennet Sister,” starring Ella Bruccoleri and Richard E. Grant, are among the drama series and TV movies competing for the Golden Nymph Award at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, which starts Friday.
The jury is chaired by British actress Lesley Manville, who serves alongside British actor Kevin McKidd, U.S. showrunner Greg Daniels, French actress Frédérique Bel, South Korean producer Hojin Kwon, and British actress Yasmin Finney.
“Ponies,” from Universal Television, is set in Moscow in the 1970s and centers on two secretaries at the American embassy who become CIA operatives after their husbands are killed, uncovering a Cold War conspiracy behind the tragedy.
“The Other Bennet Sister,” based on Janice Hadlow’s novel of the same name, follows the adventures of Mary, the forgotten middle sister among the five Bennet women in “Pride and Prejudice.” It’s produced by Bad Wolf.
Also competing is crime drama “Gone,” starring David Morrissey as an inscrutably composed headteacher whose wife has gone missing, and Eve Myles as the detective who is investigating. It is produced by New Pictures and Observatory Pictures.
