Hulu has recently acquired the US streaming rights to the BBC comedy-thriller series “Am I Being Unreasonable?,” starring Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli. The show, which has been renewed for a second season, earlier debuted on the BBC with great reviews in September and is a front-runner for the forthcoming UK TV awards season.
The comedy series is Hulu’s most recent acquisition from the UK. In the same way that Hulu previously acquired the rights to Wreck, the streaming service also has This Way Up and My Mad Fat Diary in its current repertoire. In contrast, the BBC has recently acquired a number of Hulu shows as well.
The trailer of this binge-worthy show, which was filmed in Bristol and around the West County, unveils a group of friends who, after an evening of drinking, accidentally kill someone. As they struggle to keep their secret hidden, they begin to question their own morality and the lengths they will go to in order to protect themselves. This is followed by Nic (Cooper), a mother who is trapped in a dismal marriage and mourning a loss she can’t share with anybody. She is only sustained by her son Ollie (Lenny Rush, Apple Tree House). Nevertheless, when Jen (Hizli) moves into the area, her life is filled with joy, and thanks to this sympathetic person, her secret soon begins to surface.
In an interview just before its BBC premiere, Daisy May Cooper, whose breakthrough show ‘This Country’ was remade in the U.S. by Fox and earned her widespread recognition in the UK, shared that for “Am I Being Unreasonable?”, she challenged herself to adopt a Curb Your Enthusiasm-esque style for improvising scenes. Boffola Pictures head and former BBC Comedy Controller, Shane Allen, have hailed Cooper as “one of the most tantalizing and visionary comedic voices of her generation.”
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The six episodes-series of the genre-defying comedy, is a Boffola Pictures and Lookout Point co-production for the BBC, created and written by Daisy May Cooper & Selin Hizli and commissioned by Jon Petrie, Director of BBC Comedy. The Producer was Pippa Brown (The Other One, Psychobitches), the Director was Jonny Campbell (Phoenix Nights, Eric & Ernie) and the Executive Producers were Shane Allen, Jonny Campbell, Daisy May Cooper, Kate Daughton, Selin Hizli & Jack Thorne. Tanya Qureshi, Head of BBC Comedy, was the Commissioning Editor for the BBC.
Furthermore, the cast of the show includes BAFTA-winning actress Jessica Hynes (There She Goes), Dustin Demri-Burns (Cardinal Burns, The Great), Amanda Wilkin (The Split), David Fynn (Game of Thrones), Juliet Cowan (Back to Life), Ruben Catt (Ted’s Top Ten), and Karla Crome (Under the Dome).
Given that BBC Studios reached an agreement after shopping the show at Mipcom Cannes, the first season of the series will have its Hulu original debut on April 11. With its compelling plot and talented cast, this series is sure to be a hit with audiences when it arrives on Hulu in the near future. Along with the aforementioned, Hulu has a wide range of true crime shows to watch.
