Sunny is an upcoming dark comedy television series created by Katie Robbins, based on the novel The Dark Manual by Colin O'Sullivan.
Premise
A woman living in Kyoto whose husband and son vanished in a plane crash is gifted a domesticated robot from her husband's robotics company.
Cast
Rashida Jones as Suzie Sakamoto
Hidetoshi Nishijima as Masa Sakamoto, Suzie's husband and a roboticist
Joanna Sotomura as Sunny
annie the clumsy as Mixxy, Suzie's friend and an aspiring mixologist
You as Hime
Judy Ongg as Noriko Sakamoto, Masa's mother
Jun Kunimura as Yuki Tanaka, a roboticist
Production
In February 2022, Apple TV+ announced it had given Sunny a series order. Rashida Jones is set to star in and executive produce the series, which is set to film in Japan. In July, Hidetoshi Nishijima joined the cast. In October, Joanna Sotomura, annie the clumsy, You, Judy Ongg, and Jun Kunimura were added to the cast.
Filming for the series began in Japan in July 2022.