Charming Irish Rom-Com 'The Lovers' to Premiere on Sundance Now In December

With the success of series like Max's Starstruck and Apple TV+'s Still Up, it feels like we may be heading for a romantic comedy renaissance, at least in the world of British television, Next up for American audiences is Sundance Now's The Lovers, a prickly, charming story about two very different people and the difficult choices love sometimes forces us to make.

Set in Northern Ireland, the series is a classic enemies-to-lovers romance about two people who appear to be utterly wrong for each other --- but may just turn out to be a perfect match. The Lovers follows the story of Janet, a bad-tempered, foul-mouthed supermarket worker with everything going wrong in her life, and Seamus, a self-centered political broadcaster who has a seemingly perfect existence. But when the two meet by accident, they find themselves increasingly drawn to one another, even though they have seemingly little in common. He's from London, while she hails from Belfast. She's a dedicated singleton, while he has a glamorous girlfriend. And yet the mismatched duo is proof that sometimes love can show up in entirely the wrong place.

Described as a "sexy, funny, fight-y love story", The Lovers stars Roisin Gallagher (The Dry) as Janet opposite Johnny Flynn (Emma) as Seamus. The series' ensemble also includes Conleth Hill (Vienna Blood) as Janet's supermarket boss, Phillip, and Alice Eve (Belgravia) as Frankie, Seamus's girlfriend.