'Small Town, Big Story's' Trailer Brings Hollywood to Ireland

It's been a decade since Chris O'Dowd's coming-of-age story Moone Boy hit our screens, chronicling the story of a 12-year-old kid in early '90s Ireland and the imaginary friend that helps him survive life in a houseful of sisters. Based on its creator's memories of his Irish childhood, the show is slightly surreal, delightfully quirky, and very sweet. (It's also streaming on Prime Video and BritBox, if you've never seen it.)

O'Dowd is finally set to return with another equally offbeat project that's at least partially based on his own experiences. Sky Studio's Small Town, Big Story is a series that O'Dowd describes as Moone Boy's "cultural cousin". The show is set in the fictional town of Drumbán, a rural village on the border of Ireland full of misfits and oddballs. Chaos ensues when a big-budget Hollywood production rolls into town and shines an uncomfortable spotlight on a long-hidden secret.

Christina Hendricks (The Buccaneers) stars as television producer Wendy Patterson, a successful Los Angeles producer who returns to her Irish hometown to make a TV show and finds herself caught up in elements from her past. Paddy Considine (House of the Dragon) plays Seamus Proctor, Drumbán’s local doctor and an established leader within the community. But his neat, carefully ordered life is turned upside down by the arrival of Wendy and her Hollywood team. And if the series trailer is anything to go by, the pair have some history between them. (And that history may or may not involve...aliens?)