WEEK IN WOMEN: Femme-powered LITTLE DISASTERS debuts on Paramount – Brandy McDonnell reports
Little Disasters, a new six-part psychological thriller series based on the book by British author Sarah Vaughan, debuts all episodes on Paramount+ on December 11 for viewers in the U.S., Canada, Italy and Latin America. The film’s femme-centric cast is anchored by Diane Kruger. The ensemble includes Jo Joyner, Shelley Conn and Emily Taaffe, among others. Directed by BAFTA nominee Eva Sigurðardóttir (Good Night, Rainbow Party), the series pairs realism and suspense to create an intimate yet unnerving portrait of modern motherhood.
Little Disasters focuses on a decade-long friendship among Jess (Kruger), Liz (Joyner), Charlotte (Conn) and Mel (Taaffe), four expectant mothers who were thrown together with little in common apart from their due dates but have been there for one another throughout motherhood. When perfect stay-at-home mother Jess takes her baby daughter to the hospital with a head injury that she can’t explain, her close friend and on-duty ER doctor Liz must make the excruciating decision of whether to call social services. With one phone call, Liz sets in motion a chain of events that ripples, fractures and nearly destroys not only their families but their entire friendship group.
Little Disasters was adapted for the screen by Ruth Fowler and Amanda Duke. The series is from the BAFTA-winning creative team at Roughcut Television (Coma, Big Boys) in association with Fremantle, executive producers Ash Atalla, Alex Smith and Marianna Abbotts for Roughcut Television and Vaughan also on board. Simon Judd executive produces for Fremantle, with Myf Hopkins producing. Fremantle handles global sales.
Vaughan is the Sunday Times and international best-selling author of Anatomy of a Scandal, adapted as a series in 2022 by Netfix, starring Sienna Miller, Michelle Dockery and Rupert Friend. It became a worldwide No. 1 Netflix limited series, watched for 200 million hours in its first month alone. Continue reading on THE WEEK IN WOMEN.
