Mare of Easttown

Sky exclusively acquires series three and four of Hacks

Hannah Einbinder, in her twenties, stands behind Jean Smart, in her seventies, as the pair leave a hotel through a revolving door, greeted by paparazzi. Smart poses readily for the cameras, whereas Einbinder puts up her hands in slight protest

Hacks follows the unlikely partnership between two comedians, one on the way up and the other on the way down. Deborah Vance (Jean Smart, Mare of Easttown) is a once-legendary stand-up comedian now struggling to keep hold of her Vegas residency. Enter Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert), a young comedy writer who could help revitalise Vance’s act. Daniels isn’t thrilled about working with a – to use her words – “classist monster”, but work elsewhere has dried up.