Deadline is exclusively reporting that Alice Eve is the latest name to join the cast for Sky’s upcoming comedy-drama series The Lovers.

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The drama series follows Janet, a foul-mouthed, hilarious, Belfast supermarket worker who couldn’t give a shit about anything much at all, including her life, and Seamus, a handsome, self-centred, political broadcaster with what looks to be a perfect London life and a celebrity girlfriend.

So when Seamus unexpectedly drops into Janet’s world (literally over the wall and into her backyard) they instantly clash – and yet also find themselves inextricably drawn to each other. Set in Belfast, this is a sexy, funny, fight-y love story about two people who appear to be utterly wrong for each other – yet may just be utterly right

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While her name and character description haven’t been revealed, Deadline understands that Alice Eve (who recently was cast in the pilot for the Early Edition reboot and Netflix’s thriller film The Last Girl) will be playing the role of Seamus’ high-profile celebrity girlfriend.

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The upcoming six episode series was commissioned by Gabriel Silver, Director of Commissioning for Drama at Sky Studios for Zai Bennett, Managing Director of Content at Sky UK. Hannah Pescod will also serve as executive producer alongside Liz Lewin, Manpreet Dosanjh, Roanna Benn and Rebecca de Souza, with Chris Martin serving as producer. The Lovers is written by David Ireland and being directed by Justin Martin.

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Alice Eve will join a cast that includes Roisin Gallagher, Johnny Flynn and Conleth Hill.