Tease revealed for sun-drenched thriller The Iris Affair, starring Niamh Algar and Tom Hollander

From Neil Cross, acclaimed creator of Luther, the eight-part series launches this AutumnMonday 18 August 2025

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Sky has released a first-look teaser trailer of The Iris Affair, a tense and cinematic chase thriller that pits two brilliant minds against each other in a deadly game of hide and seek across Italy.

When enigmatic genius Iris Nixon (Algar) cracks a string of complex online puzzles, she's led to a piazza in Florence where she meets charismatic entrepreneur Cameron Beck (Hollander). He invites her to come and work for him to unlock a powerful and top-secret piece of technology. Her curiosity piqued, she accepts. But when Iris discovers its dangerous potential, she steals the journal containing the device's activation sequence-and vanishes.

What follows is a relentless pursuit, from a remote cabin in Sardinia through the bustling streets of Rome, as Cameron races to find Iris in a high-stakes game where trust is dangerous and failure could be catastrophic.

Starring Niamh Algar (Mary & George, The Virtues) and Tom Hollander (The White Lotus, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans), The Iris Affair is a sun-drenched chase thriller created, written and showrun by Neil Cross (Luther) and directed by Terry McDonough (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) and Sarah O'Gorman (A Gentleman in Moscow, The Witcher).

The Iris Affair will launch this autumn on Sky and streaming service NOW.

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Further Cast

The cast also includes Kristofer Hivju (Game of Thrones, Force Majeure), Harry Lloyd (Arcane, Marcella), Mer ana Tomlinson (The Trials), Sacha Dhawan (The Great, Doctor Who), Maya Sansa (Good Morning, Night, Dormant Beauty), Peter Sullivan (Poldark, The Borgias), Debi Mazar (Younger, Entourage), Marco Leonardi (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, Anime Nere), Angela Bruce (Silver Haze, Doctor Who) and Lorenzo De Moor (A Simple Favor 2, Dolce Fine Giornata).

Series Credits

The Iris Affair is a Sky Studios and Fremantle co-production. Wildside, a Fremantle company, provided production services in Italy. The series is directed by Terry McDonough and Sarah O'Gorman, and the Series Executive Producer is Tim Bricknell (The Power, Taboo). Susan E. Connolly and Ian Scott McCullough have written episodes. Executive Producers are Adrian Sturges for Sky Studios; Neil Cross and Terry McDonough; and Jenni Sherwood and Dante Di Loreto for Fremantle. Fremantle is handling international sales of the series.

PR Contacts:

Jessie Elliott / jessie.elliott@sky.uk

Georgina Anthony / georgina.anthony@sky.uk

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