'War' Trailer Debuts: Miller, West Lead HBO Divorce Drama — SkimNews
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- "War" debuts its first trailer, starring Sienna Miller as international film star Carla Duval and Dominic West as British tech entrepreneur Morgan Henderson in a divorce trial between rival London firms Cathcarts & Sons and Taylor & Byrne.
- George Kay, creator of "Lupin" and "Hijack," writes "War" — a high-stakes legal drama structured as an anthology, with each season built around a different headline-grabbing case.
- Season 2 is already greenlit, Variety reports, and will shift from the Season 1 divorce to an "explosive defamation case," giving HBO and Sky a second-season runway before the first episode has even aired.
- Phoebe Fox, James McArdle, Archie Renaux, Nina Sosanya, and Pip Torrens headline the supporting cast as partners and rivals across the two firms, joined by Celia Imrie, Nick Mohammed, Archie Panjabi, Honor Swinton Byrne, and Emma Laird.
- HBO will premiere "War" on Oct. 1 at 9 p.m. ET/PT with streaming the next day on HBO Max; Sky carries the series in the U.K. beginning Oct. 2 on Sky and NOW.
- New Pictures (a Banijay company) and Observatory Pictures co-produce "War" in association with Sky and HBO.
Why it matters: HBO and Sky are staking premium legal-drama real estate on George Kay's anthology, premiering Oct. 1 in the U.S. and Oct. 2 in the U.K. The pre-air Season 2 renewal signals Sky/HBO confidence in Kay's case-of-the-season format, locking in a multi-year commitment — and a built-in pivot to a defamation storyline — before audiences have seen a single episode.
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