Sister and Sky/HBO re-team for comic horror

Sister has hooked up again with Sky/HBO for a dark comic horror series about motherhood, their first partnership since the Bafta-record-breaking Chernobyl.

Having scooped nine Bafta TV/Craft Awards for the lauded historical mini-series, Sister has been greenlit for The Baby, which is being co-created by first-time screenwriters Lucy Gaymer and Sex Education exec Siân Robins-Grace.

Gaymer and Robins-Grace’s production outfit Proverbial Pictures is co-producing the eight-parter, which takes a darkly comic look at the institution of motherhood.

When protagonist Natasha is unexpectedly landed with a baby, her life dramatically implodes. Controlling, manipulative and with violent powers, the baby twists Natasha’s life into a horror show.

“With The Baby we want to explore the powerful anxiety around the question of whether or not to have children,” said Gaymer and Robins-Grace.

“The ambivalence of not knowing, the bafflement at everyone else’s certainty and the suspicion that the whole thing is one millennia-long scam.”

Sky UK managing director of content Zai Bennett ordered the eight-parter along with HBO’s Casey Bloys and Amy Gravitt.

Exec-producers are Jane Featherstone, Carolyn Strauss, Naomi de Pear, Katie Carpenter and Robins-Grace, while Gaymer is producing.