“You’ve got to sell them the dream,” Matt Smith intones in the first trailer for The Death Of Bunny Munro .

Sky will be hoping to bottle some of that bravado when the limited series, based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Nick Cave , premieres on November 20.

The six-part drama stars Doctor Who actor Smith as the titular character, a self-professed lothario who finds himself saddled with a young son after his wife dies by suicide.

Together with nine-year-old Bunny Junior he embarks on an increasingly out-of-control road trip across southern England as the two struggle to contain their grief.

The project is written by BAFTA-winning Somewhere Boy scribe Pete Jackson for Baby Reindeer producer Clerkenwell Films in association with Sky Studios. Isabella Eklöf ( Indus

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