Sesso released a trailer and set a spring premiere date for Flowers, the ad-free comedy streaming channel’s first scripted original series. All six half-hour episodes will be available May 5 for all Seeso subscribers.

Starring Olivia Colman (Broadchurch, Hot Fuzz), Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh, Nathan Barley) and directed by Will Sharpe (Black Pond), the dark comedy-drama focuses on an eccentric and dysfunctional family struggling to hold themselves together.

Maurice (Barratt), the author of illustrated children’s books “The Grubbs,” and music teacher wife Deborah (Colman) are barely together, but yet to divorce. As Maurice fights inner demons and dark secrets, Deborah tries to keep the family together at all costs and becomes increasingly suspicious that Maurice is in a secret homosexual relationship with his Japanese illustrator Shun (played by show creator Will Sharpe).

The Flowers family live in a creaky, messy, crumbling old house with Maurice’s ailing mother Hattie (Leila Hoffman) and their maladjusted 25-year-old twins Amy (Sophia di Martino) and Donald (Daniel Rigby). Both are competing for the affection of neighbor Abigail (Georgina Campbell) as they struggle to burst through the confines of their arrested development.

The series is produced by Kudos and Executive Produced by Kudos joint-CEO Diederick Santer with Naomi de Pear. Flowers was commissioned by Phil Clarke, Channel 4’s Head of Comedy, in association with Seeso (Evan Shapiro, Kelsey Balance and Dan Kerstetter).

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