{"id":23541,"date":"2025-10-06T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/cineflix-rights-sends-sunny-nights-to-the-u-k\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T11:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:16:52","slug":"cineflix-rights-sends-sunny-nights-to-the-u-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/cineflix-rights-sends-sunny-nights-to-the-u-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Cineflix Rights Sends Sunny Nights to the U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The darkly comedic crime drama <em>Sunny Nights<\/em>, starring Will Forte (<em>Last Man on Earth<\/em>, <em>Bodkin<\/em>) and D\u2019Arcy Carden (<em>The Good Place<\/em>, <em>Barry<\/em>), will debut in the U.K. on ITV through a deal with Cineflix Rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill Forte and D\u2019Arcy Carden are already familiar faces to British viewers through two of the biggest streaming hits this year,<em> The Four Seasons<\/em> and <em>Nobody Wants This<\/em>,\u201d said Tom Misselbrook, senior VP of scripted development at Cineflix Rights. \u201cTogether with the incredibly talented Trent O\u2019Donnell, the outstanding showrunner and director of so many much-loved series like <em>Colin from Account<\/em>s and <em>Hacks<\/em>, they\u2019ve created a wonderfully funny dark crime series. We are thrilled to be partnering with ITV to bring <em>Sunny Nights<\/em> to U.K. audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The eight-parter sees Forte play the strait-laced American Matin Marvin, who teams up with his loose-cannon sister Vicki (Carden) to set up a spray tan business in Sydney. As they attempt to turn their company from a startup operating out of a van to a multi-million-dollar empire, the siblings become tangled up in Sydney\u2019s criminal underworld.<\/p>\n<p>Supporting cast members include Rachel House (<em>Thor: Ragnarok<\/em>, <em>Heartbreak High<\/em>, <em>Foundation<\/em>), Jessica De Gouw (<em>The Couple Next Door<\/em>, <em>The Artful Dodger<\/em>,<em> Ladies in Black<\/em>), Miritana Hughes (<em>Wakefield<\/em>, <em>Preacher<\/em>), Ra Chapman (<em>White Fever<\/em>, <em>Wentworth<\/em>) and Megan Wilding (<em>Gold Diggers<\/em>, <em>Mystery Road: Origin<\/em>), plus a special appearance from Patrick Brammall (<em>Colin From Accounts<\/em>,<em> No Activity<\/em>, <em>The Letdown<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em>Sunny Nights<\/em> is a Stan original series produced by Jungle Entertainment (<em>Mr. Inbetween<\/em>, <em>Population 11<\/em>) and Echo Lake Entertainment (<em>The Great<\/em>) in association with Cineflix Rights (<em>The Walsh Sisters<\/em>, <em>So Long<\/em>, <em>Marianne<\/em>, <em>Virdee<\/em>) and major production investment from Stan and Screen Australia. It is also financed with support from Screen NSW through the Made in NSW Fund. It is directed and executive produced by Trent O\u2019Donnell (<em>Colin from Accounts<\/em>, <em>Hacks<\/em>, <em>No Activity<\/em>, <em>Population 11<\/em>) and is created and written by Nick Keetch (<em>Almost Paradise<\/em>) and Ty Freer (<em>High Fire<\/em>, <em>Almost Paradise<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Sunny Nights<\/em> is exactly the type of unique content that our audiences will enjoy; we can\u2019t wait to introduce our viewers to this darkly funny series when it launches on ITVX in 2026,\u201d commented Darren Nartey, head of content acquisitions at ITV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The darkly comedic crime drama Sunny Nights, starring Will Forte (Last Man on Earth, Bodkin) and D\u2019Arcy Carden (The Good Place, Barry), will debut in the U.K. on ITV through a deal with Cineflix Rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":23542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[3462,9340,11449,8709,4986,9344],"class_list":["post-23541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-cineflix-rights","tag-darcy-carden","tag-darren-nartey","tag-sunny-nights","tag-tom-misselbrook","tag-will-forte","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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