The Death of Bunny Munro – Watch Matt Smith in the trailer for the TV adaptation of the Nick Cave novel

The Death of Bunny Munro is a six-part Sky Original TV series based on Nick Cave’s sophomore novel of the same name. It is written by BAFTA winner Pete Jackson (Somewhere Boy) and directed by Isabella Eklöf (Industry, Holiday). Matt Smith stars as the titular character and executive produces.

Following his wife Libby’s suicide, sex addict, door-to-door beauty product salesman and self-professed lothario Bunny Munro finds himself saddled with a young son and only a loose concept of parenting. Together with nine-year-old Bunny Junior he embarks on an epic and increasingly out-of-control road trip across Southern England as the two struggle to contain their grief in very different ways.

“As Bunny bounces from one sales pitch to the next, trying to seduce any woman he meets, Bunny Junior kills time talking to the ghost of his mother and distracting himself from the dawning realisation that his dad isn’t just fallible, he’s a fucking mess. As he starts to unravel, Bunny realises he must do something to rescue his son from his own outdated notions of what it is to be a man. The Death of Bunny Munro is a darkly comic and unflinching modern-day parable as well as a tender portrait of the relationship between father and son.

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The Death of Bunny Munro is set to premiere on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV in the United Kingdom on 20 November 2025.