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‘Black Mirror’ & ‘Ponies’ Producer Jessica Rhoades On Championing Writers, Working With Charlie Brooker & Expanding Pacesetter Productions Into The UK

Jessica Rhoades has been in the TV game for more than two decades with series such as Sharp Objects, Station Eleven, The Affair, Dirty John and Black Mirror all under her belt, but now, as her Pacesetter Productions banner enters its 10th year, she’s really finding her groove. The California native, who recently relocated to London and opened a UK office, is coming off the back of launching her latest series Ponies on Peacock, a groovy eight-part 1970s Cold War espionage thriller with Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson. It’s co-created, co-written and exec produced by Susanna Fogel (The Flight Attendant) and David Iserson (Mr.

'Ponies'; Jessica Rhoades

'Ponies'; Jessica Rhoades

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  • Watch on Deadline Additional projects in the pipeline include Season 8 of Black Mirror, Bridgerton creator Chris Van Dusen’s TV adaptation of Elle Kennedy’s book Girl Abroad, the first project to come out of Pacesetter’s first-look deal with A24, and Mandy Moore erotic thriller Teach Me from Gypsy creator Lisa Rubin, which it just sold to Peacock.
  • It’s a grey and gloomy January morning when Deadline sits down for a rare interview with Rhoades where she opens up about her robust slate, her deep respect for writers and how her work on Black Mirror helped pave the way for her to expand Pacesetter into the UK.
  • “From the get-go, the idea with Pacesetter was that it would be a turnkey producing partner for writers,” says Rhoades.
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