Prime Video announces UK romcom Picture This

With Simone Ashley, Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Sindhu Vee

Sex Education and Bridgerton star Simone Ashley is to star in a new romcom opposite Hero Fiennes Tiffin, the actor and model who played young Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince.

The cast of Picture This also includes comedian Sindhu Vee, Ted Lasso’s Phil Dunster, Starstruck’s Nikesh Patel and Citizen Khan’s Adil Ray.

It is being made in the UK for Amazon’s Prime Video platform, although no release date has yet been named,

Ashley plays Pia, a single woman running a failing photography studio in London with her best friend Jay (Luke Fetherston). As her sister Sonal (Anoushka Chadha) prepares to get married and her mother Laxmi (Sindhu Vee) urges to partner up, a spiritual guru predicts the resolutely independent Pia will meet the love of her life on one of the next five dates she goes on.

It is based on the Australian movie Five Blind Dates, already available on Prime Video.

Ashley – named one of Variety's Brits to Watch in 2021 – played Kate Sharma in Bridgerton and Olivia Hanan in Sex Education.

Fiennes Tiffin is a member of the aristocratic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family and nephew to actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes. He is also a model and is soon to be seen in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, starring Henry Cavill and directed by Guy Ritchie.

Tara Erer, Prime Video’s head of Northern European originals, said: ‘We’re really excited to bring this brilliant new and original London-set romantic-comedy to Prime Video customers.

‘Picture This has a fantastic cast, with the wonderful Simone Ashley and Hero Fiennes Tiffin as our leads, as well as a brilliant filmmaking team, we know our audience are going to absolutely love, and laugh a lot, with this film.’

The film is directed by Prarthana Mohan and written by Nikita Lalwani, based on Shaung Hu and Nathan Ramos-Park’s script for Five Blind Dates, and the production company is 42.

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Published: 22 Mar 2024