Phoebe Waller-Bridge Comedy ‘Run’ Premieres on HBO April 12

By
( )
published

Comedy Run starts on HBO Sunday, April 12. The series follows a woman whose boring life is thrown upside down when she gets a text from an ex-boyfriend, inviting her to drop everything and meet him in New York. The text reads, simply, RUN.

The pair had worked out the run-away arrangement 17 years before.

Merritt Wever and Domhnall Gleeson star.

HBO calls it a romantic comedic thriller.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a guest star, playing Laurel, a woman the pair meets on their journey.

Waller-Bridge executive produces, along with Vicky Jones, Jenny Robins, Kate Dennis, Emily Leo and Oliver Roskill of Wigwam Films. Run is produced by eOne.

Jones and Waller-Bridge founded the DryWrite Theatre Company. In 2013, Jones directed Waller-Bridge’s stage production of Fleabag.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.