Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement introduced Alice and Steve, a British comedy about a lifelong friendship turned feud, at its UK premiere in Leicester Square.
Disney+ held the UK premiere of Alice and Steve, a six-part British comedy about a friendship turned feud, at the Odeon Luxe West End on Monday 1 June 2026.
Nicola Walker was born in Stepney in 1970 and read English at New Hall, Cambridge, the first of her family to go to university, where she started out with the Cambridge Footlights. She played Ruth Evershed in Spooks and led Unforgotten and The Split, and on stage she won the Olivier Award in 2013 for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Jemaine Clement, from New Zealand, made his name with Bret McKenzie as Flight of the Conchords, a double act that became a series for the BBC and HBO and earned him six Emmy nominations; in 2014 he co-wrote and co-directed What We Do in the Shadows with Taika Waititi.
Sophie Goodhart, a writer on Sex Education, created and wrote the series for Clerkenwell Films, the company behind Baby Reindeer, and Tom Kingsley of Stath Lets Flats directed all six episodes. A friendship of twenty-five years sours when Steve begins dating Alice’s daughter, Izzy, played by Yali Topol Margalith. It won Best Series at Canneseries in April.
Guests watched the first two episodes before a Q&A with the cast on stage, and the series began streaming on Disney+ in Britain one week later, on Monday 8 June.