{"id":830241,"date":"2026-11-10T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/830241\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:14:10","slug":"tony-mcnamaras-mosquito-comedy-series-adds-10-to-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/830241\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony McNamara&#8217;s &#8216;Mosquito&#8217; Comedy Series Adds 10 To Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDisney has rounded out the ensemble cast for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mosquito\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mosquito\" data-tag=\"mosquito\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mosquito<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hulu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hulu<\/a> original series from Oscar-nominated writer <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tony-mcnamara\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony McNamara<\/a> (The Great, Poor Things), as principal photography gets underway in the UK.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKyle Soller (Slow Horses, Andor), Phoebe Fox (Task, War), John Macmillan (Peonies, House of the Dragon), Belinda Bromilow (The Great, The Roses), Liv Hill (1536, Three Girls), Frances Magee (Kin, Rose of Nevada), Phoebe Campbell (House of the Dragon, Midsomer Murders), Akshay Khanna (Murderbot, Number 10), Bamshad Abedi Amin (Kill Jackie, A Town Called Malice) and Den Rasaq join previously announced leads <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nicholas-hoult\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nicholas-hoult\" data-tag=\"nicholas-hoult\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Hoult<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/daisy-edgar-jones\/\" id=\"auto-tag_daisy-edgar-jones\" data-tag=\"daisy-edgar-jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daisy Edgar-Jones<\/a> in the series about a marriage, secrets, and one very annoying insect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDescribed as a sardonic look at a young couple\u2019s relationship, the six-part dramedy brings Hoult, Edgar-Jones and McNamara back to Hulu where they were part of two signature 2020 series. McNamara created and Hoult starred in the comedy-drama The Great, which ran for three seasons, and Edgar-Jones starred in the limited series Normal People. Both shows were hits with viewers and critics, landing Golden Globe acting nominations for Hoult and Edgar-Jones and Best TV Series \u2013 Musical or Comedy for McNamara. (Hoult and McNamara, along with female lead Elle Fanning, also earned Emmy nominations for their work on The Great.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn Mosquito, Hoult and Edgar-Jones star as Ed and Kate, a recently married couple whose secrets begin to reveal as daily life chips away at the personas they present\u2026all started by an intrusive mosquito. The ensemble cast of characters spans their work lives, home lives and everywhere in between.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMatthew Moore directs all six episodes with 20th Television, Piggy Ate Roast Beef Productions, and Hustle &amp; Punch producing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn Ed\u2019s side, Soller plays Hunter, Ed\u2019s half-brother, who doesn\u2019t suffer fools, has given his life to the family business only to find he must share it with Ed; Fox is Gail, their cousin, an anthropology PhD student and trusted co-worker; Magee is Viktor, a longtime employee with a score to settle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn Kate\u2019s office, Bromilow is Agnes, Kate\u2019s boss, with an apex predator\u2019s instincts and a medieval court\u2019s management style; Macmillan plays Brian an effortlessly charming, quietly ruthless high-flyer; Hill is Georgie, Kate\u2019s cunning rival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKhanna plays Will, Kate\u2019s old university friend with Campbell, who plays his wife Cressida, a wealthy couple with more secrets than their marriage can comfortably hold. Abedi Amin and Rasaq round out the cast as Gail\u2019s PHD supervisor and another work rival for Kate respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a privilege to have such a phenomenal team assembled both in front of and behind the cameras as filming gets underway,\u201d said Lee Mason vice president, scripted, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/disney-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_disney-2\" data-tag=\"disney-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney+<\/a> EMEA, adding \u201cI\u2019m excited for Disney+ and Hulu audiences to see the wonderfully absurd world Tony has created.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMcNamara executive produces with Hoult, Edgar-Jones, Marian Macgowan, Tracy Underwood and Daniel Pipski. The series was commissioned for Disney+ by Mason, and will stream on Disney+ globally and on Disney+ and Hulu in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMacgowan and showrunner McNamara added: \u201cWe are all more than thrilled to be making Mosquito for Disney+, Hulu and 20th Television.. Led by Nicholas and Daisy and rounded out by this extraordinary cast we couldn\u2019t be more excited.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney has rounded out the ensemble cast for Mosquito, a Hulu original series from Oscar-nominated writer Tony McNamara&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[110953,6460,96,21007,35738,56418,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-830241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-daisy-edgar-jones","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-hulu","tag-mosquito","tag-nicholas-hoult","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}