The Death of Bunny Munro trailer released by Sky

By Jon Donnis

Sky has unveiled the official trailer for its upcoming six-part limited series The Death of Bunny Munro, starring BAFTA and Emmy nominee Matt Smith in the lead role. The Sky Original series will debut on Sky and NOW from 20 November.

Written by BAFTA winner Pete Jackson (Somewhere Boy) and directed by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Isabella Eklöf (Industry, Holiday), the show is based on Nick Cave's acclaimed novel. It comes from Clerkenwell Films (Baby Reindeer, The End of the F**ing World*) in partnership with Sky Studios. Nick Cave also serves as Executive Producer, composing the score with his longtime collaborator Warren Ellis. Matt Smith joins him as a fellow Executive Producer.

After the death of his wife Libby, door-to-door beauty salesman and self-proclaimed lothario Bunny Munro (Matt Smith) is left caring for his young son, Bunny Junior, with little grasp of what fatherhood means. As grief consumes them both in different ways, Bunny drags Junior along on a chaotic sales trip across Brighton and the nearby coast.

While Bunny chases fleeting encounters and questionable conquests, Junior spends his time talking to his mother's ghost and slowly realising that his father's flaws run deep. As Bunny's life begins to spiral, he's forced to confront what kind of man and father he really is, before his son repeats the same mistakes.

A wild, tragic, and darkly funny exploration of masculinity and loss, The Death of Bunny Munro premieres on Sky and NOW on 20 November.

First Look: The Death of Bunny Munro – Matt Smith Leads Sky’s Bold New Drama

By Jon Donnis

Sky has dropped the first teaser for The Death of Bunny Munro, a six-part limited series that brings Nick Cave's cult novel to the screen with Matt Smith stepping into the messy, magnetic lead role. It's the kind of project that instantly turns heads: BAFTA and Emmy nominations on the cast list, a creative team boasting the likes of Pete Jackson and Isabella Eklöf, and Cave himself not only executive producing but also reuniting with Warren Ellis to compose the score. That mix alone suggests this will be one of the most striking dramas of the year.

The story follows Bunny Munro, a Brighton-based beauty salesman who loses his wife to suicide and responds by hitting the road with his young son. What unfolds is part road trip, part cautionary tale, part fractured father-son drama. The teaser hints at the show's uneasy balance: Bunny throwing himself into womanising and self-destruction, while his son drifts further into conversation with his mother's ghost. Smith looks unflinching in the role, shifting between sleaze, grief, and flashes of vulnerability. It's a risky character to take on, but one that could easily define his career beyond the fantasy and sci-fi work he's best known for.

There's a distinctly raw energy in the way the series has been pitched. Brighton and the South Coast are front and centre, not as postcard backdrops but as faded, lived-in landscapes where Bunny's denial and Junior's awakening play out. It promises a story that is as jagged as it is tender, peeling back layers of masculinity and inheritance while never letting you forget the chaos at its core. With the combination of Cave's lyrical darkness, Ellis's music, and Smith's magnetism, The Death of Bunny Munro already feels set to be one of the year's boldest television events when it launches on Sky and NOW this November.