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The Cold War-era spy drama stars Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson.
By Rick Porter
Television Business Editor
Peacock is no longer riding with Ponies.
The NBCUniversal streamer has canceled its espionage drama Ponies after a single season. The news comes about five months after the series premiered as a binge release on Jan. 15.
Set in Moscow in 1977, the series stars Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson as Bea and Twila, secretaries who work at the U.S. embassy — “ponies,” or persons of no importance to intelligence operatives. When their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the Soviet Union, however, they become CIA operatives in an effort to solve the mystery, uncovering a conspiracy in the process.
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Adrian Lester, Artjom Gilz, Nicholas Podany, Petro Ninovskyi and Vic Michaelis also starred in the series.
Peacock doesn’t regularly release viewing data for its series. Ponies did not break into Nielsen’s top 10 charts for original streaming series in the few weeks after its premiere, despite largely positive reviews. For the show’s premiere week and the two weeks after, the 10th-place original on the Nielsen charts had an average of 379 million viewing minutes.
Universal Television produced Ponies. David Iserson (New Girl, Mad Men) and Susanna Fogel (Booksmart) created the series, with Iserson and Mike Daniels serving as co-showrunners and Fogel directing four of the show’s eight episodes. Iserson, Fogel and Daniels executive produced along with Clarke and Jessica Rhoades. Katherine Bridle, Alison Mo Massey, Jared Ian Goldman and Rosa Handelman served as co-EPs.
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