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- SEAN MARLAND ALISON SLADE

NEW COMEDY DRAMA

Small Town, Big Story

Thu, 9pm, Sky Atlantic & Sky Max (box set, Sky Box Sets & NOW)

Mad Men star Christina Hendricks plays a woman who returns to her Irish home town to face an astonishing secret that's haunted her for decades in Sky's warmhearted comedy drama Small Town, Big Story.

Created by The IT Crowd and Moone Boy star Chris O'Dowd, the six-part series begins when hotshot LA-based producer Wendy Patterson (Hendricks) heads back to the small town of Drumbán to film a Game of Thrones-style fantasy TV series. However, the arrival of the bigbudget production also throws a spotlight on the town and a mysterious extraterrestrial event that has been kept secret for 25 years.