on location footage of the HBO DRAMA SERIES THE NEVERS filmed in london.
The Nevers is an American science fiction drama television series created by Joss Whedon for HBO. The series is produced by HBO and Mutant Enemy Productions with executive producers including Whedon, Philippa Goslett, Doug Petrie, Jane Espenson, Ilene S. Landress and Bernadette Caulfield. The series premiered on April 11, 2021. The first season will consist of 12 episodes, split into two six-episode parts, with the second half debuting in 2022. The series is set in Victorian London and follows a group of people, mostly women, known as the Touched, who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities. Among them are Amalia True, a mysterious and quick-fisted widow, and her best friend Penance Adair, a brilliant inventor. The series received a straight-to-series order from HBO in June 2018, after a bidding war with other networks and streaming services including Netflix. Laura Donnelly was the first actress to join the series in April 2019, with the rest of the cast joining in July 2019. Genre Drama Science fiction Historical fiction Steampunk Created by Joss Whedon Starring Laura Donnelly Ann Skelly Olivia Williams James Norton Tom Riley Pip Torrens Denis O'Hare Rochelle Neil Amy Manson Zackary Momoh Eleanor Tomlinson Nick Frost Elizabeth Berrington Viola Prettejohn Anna Devlin Kiran Sonia Sawar Ben Chaplin Ella Smith Vinnie Heaven