Found what looks like an official episode count. According to
THIS ARTICLE posted on the Deadline website this morning, we can expect 10 60-minute episodes (10 x 60'):
Sony Pictures Television
Length: 10 x 60’
Producer: Media Res
Network: Peacock
Sony is going big on The Miniature Wife in Cannes with a screening in the famed Grand Auditorium at MIPCOM. Stars Matthew Macfadyen, O-T Fagbenle, and Sian Clifford are headed to the Cote D’Azur and will be in attendance.
In a TV world in which commissioners are often accused of being risk-averse, the series lives up to its high-concept billing, which is one way to pique buyer interest at a MIPCOM market awash in drama. The 10-parter is produced by Media Res and based on the short story written by Manuel Gonzalez about a man who accidentally shrinks his wife.
The series examines the power balance, or imbalance, between spouses. The couple in question are Lindy, played by Elizabeth Banks, and Les, played by Macfadyen. They battle each other for supremacy after the shrinking accident and the understandable relationship crisis that ensues.
A blend of comedy and drama, the show will play on Peacock in the U.S. next year. Sony Pictures Television is on sales duty. Mike Wald, SPT’s co-president, distribution & Network: s, says buzz has been building among international acquisition execs since the studio gave them a sneak peek at this year’s LA Screenings in May.
“Buyers everywhere are chasing bold content that commands attention and delivers marketing muscle,” he says. “With The Miniature Wife, you start with a high-concept idea that is both fresh and wildly inventive, add in huge star power led by Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen, and you have a series that will overdeliver for any service.”
Wald adds that the show could land with various types of buyers. “What makes this series so great to sell is that it is suitable for any audience and that has certainly been reflected in the early interest we have seen, from streamers to pay-TV to free-TV.”
Jennifer Ames (Boardwalk Empire) and Steve Turner(Goliath), are showrunners and exec producers. Other cast includes Zoe Lister-Jones and Sofia Rosinsky as regulars, and Ronny Chieng, Aasif Mandvi, Rong Fu and Tricia Black in recurring roles. The MIPCOM crowd will get to see one episode at the market screening.
This contradicts the 14-episode run noted on the IMDB page, but I never fully trusted that number because it listed 13 episodes in Season 1 and 1 episode in Season 2. For a streaming show, 10 episodes seems pretty standard. For some cast members, especially some bit parts, they list on their IMDB page which episodes they're in, and some are listed for episode 12 (1.12). It's possible that the scripts or filming schedule broke it into 13 episodes, which are then edited to a final 10. Who knows? But this seems more accurate than anything before.
Additionally, it seems to confirm that the exclusive screening next Monday at MIPCOM will be one episode, which I'm assuming would be the first episode. That means there will be miniaturizing in that episode because that would be part of the big selling points after the A-list leads, anyway. Maybe the episode starts with a scene from late the story, with Lindy shrunk and feral-ish and them in battle mode, and then voiceover from Les with the opening lines of the short story: "The truth of the matter is: I have managed to make my wife very, very small. This was done unintentionally. This was an accident." That would be cool!
Oh, and have a picture of Les and Lindy, presumably before she gets shrunk. Don't they look cute?
2026 can't come fast enough!
