Sky One has released the trailer for Intelligence, its new workplace comedy from Nick Mohammed co-starring David Schwimmer. All six episodes will be available on Sky One and NOW TV from Friday 21 February.
Created and written by Mohammed, Intelligence is set inside GCHQ, which Sky describes as a weedier, geekier version of MI5, where the staff tackle international and domestic cyber crime from their desks.
Schwimmer plays Jerry Bernstein, an arrogant, maverick NSA agent who arrives from the US to join the team. He enlists an inept and tactless junior computer analyst, Joseph Harries, played by Mohammed, in a power grab that threatens to disrupt the unit’s work combating cyber terrorism. Sylvestra Le Touzel plays Christine Clarke, GCHQ’s Director of Cyber Security, who is less than thrilled by the shake-up.
Mohammed, whose credits include The Martian and Christopher Robin, also executive produces alongside Schwimmer and Nerys Evans for production company Expectation. Matt Lipsey directs.
The series was commissioned by Jon Mountague, Sky’s director of comedy, and Zai Bennett, director of programming for Sky Entertainment. NBCUniversal Global Distribution is handling international sales.