Hulu has dated Alice and Steve, its six-part British comedy from Baby Reindeer producer Clerkenwell Films, for a June 8 streaming premiere — all episodes dropping at once on Hulu in the US, on Hulu via Disney+ for bundle subscribers, and on Disney+ internationally.
The series had already world-premiered in competition at CANNESERIES on April 26, and it will make its US debut at the Tribeca Festival on June 4 before the wider streaming launch four days later.
The show stars Nicola Walker (The Split, Unforgotten) and Jemaine Clement (What We Do in the Shadows, Flight of the Conchords) as lifelong best friends whose world implodes when middle-aged Steve starts dating Alice’s 26-year-old daughter Izzy. What starts as a friendship-threatening situation rapidly escalates: Alice launches a campaign to end the relationship, Steve refuses to yield, and the two former intimates slide into open warfare. The series bills itself as an anti-romantic comedy — or, in the production’s own coinage, a “wrong-com.”
Joel Fry (Cruella, Our Flag Means Death) plays Alice’s husband Daniel, with Yali Topol Margalith (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder) as daughter Izzy, Tyrese Eaton-Dyce as Alice’s son Dom, and Olivier Award-winner Marcia Warren (The Crown) as Alice’s mother Val.
The series was created and written by Sophie Goodhart (Sex Education) and directed by BAFTA-winner Tom Kingsley (Stath Lets Flats). Petra Fried, Andy Baker, and Wim De Greef executive produce for Clerkenwell Films, with the commission originating from Lee Mason, VP Scripted at Disney+ EMEA.
Walker said she was “thrilled to be stepping into the fabulous world of friendship, motherhood, marriage, frantic revenge and fierce love” that Goodhart created, adding that working with Clement was “completely joyful.” Clement was characteristically dry in his own statement: “I really relate to Steve — he’s classy, stylish and an all-round good guy — except for when he isn’t.”
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Lee Mason of Disney+ described the show as “a riotous mix of betrayal and revenge in a world of beautifully messy and flawed characters,” calling Walker’s performance one “as you’ve never seen her before.”
