BBC, ZDF Cold War Thriller ‘Honey’ Offers Sex, Lies – and Prosthetic Testicles: ‘There’s an Innate Comedy and Absurdity to Spying’

Brought onto the market at Mipcom by Fifth Season, 'Honey' world premiered at the TV trade fair Monday evening

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Upcoming BBC-ZDF series ‘Honey,’ which had its world premiere Monday evening at Mipcom, isn’t your usual Cold War thriller.

In the show, sold by Fifth Season, a young MI6 agent Martha (Ann Skelly) becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle in East Berlin in 1982, where she navigates a shadowy world of counterespionage.

“Romance and spy thriller feel like two genres that don’t necessarily go together, but they sharpen each other in writing. If the violence is really gory and the spy elements are really dangerous, then the sexy elements have to be really, really sexy,” said Emma Moran, lead writer and executive producer.

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