Quay Street to Deliver Significant Other to ITVX

Nicola Shindler’s Quay Street Productions is bringing the comedic drama Significant Other to ITVX, with Katherine Parkinson and Youssef Kerkour as the leads.

Significant Other is an unconventional love story told through a comedic lens. Parkinson (The IT Crowd, Hitmen, Defending the Guilty) and Kerkour (Stay Close, House of Gucci, Home) play two lonely neighbors in their mid-40s who embark on a hesitant, obstacle-filled relationship after drastic life events bring them together.

The 6×30-minute dramedy has been adapted from yes Studios’ award-winning Israeli series of the same name. Significant Other was created by Dana Modan, Assi Cohen and Ram Nehari, and it has been adapted and written by Dana Fainaru (Vikings: Valhalla, The Last Czars, Death in Paradise) and Hamish Wright (Mr. Selfridge, Casualty, The Secret Life of Us), who also serve as executive producers alongside Shindler (It’s a Sin, Stay Close, Years and Years, Ridley Road, Happy Valley). David Sant (Spitting Image, Hitmen, Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After, Benidorm) is directing and Debbie Pisani (Flack, Back to Life, Peep Show) is series producing.

Parkinson said: “Significant Other is a beautifully unconventional love story, and I’m so thrilled to be bringing it to life with Nicola Shindler and her team. It deals with loneliness and the messiness of love, and I hope the scripts will resonate as much with an audience as they did with me. I can’t wait to get started!”

Kerkour said: “I’m overjoyed and very grateful to be teaming up with Nicola Shindler once again and to have the privilege of working with Katherine Parkinson, whom I’ve been a fan of for so many years. The real value of a career is the outstanding people one gets to work with and the love and joy that that work brings to an audience… (and vice versa). Significant Other is a beautiful story with a wickedly funny center, and I can’t wait to share it with everyone.”

Fainaru and Wright said: “This story of two battle-scarred, isolated characters who find a connection in the most unusual and hilarious way has spoken to us from the very start. We feel so lucky that Nicola Shindler believed in us and the idea and put us together with the most amazing team. It’s going to be a joy to see how director David Sant and the incredible cast bring the scripts to life.”

Shindler said: “From the moment Dana and Hamish started talking to me about the idea of Significant Other, I loved the idea of a romance built from such dark foundations, both very funny and very real. I’m incredibly happy to have such a brilliant cast in Katherine and Youssef as our pairing to bring these very flawed, very lovable characters to life, along with our skillful director David Sant to create our world and our partners in ITVX.”