Billie Piper has shared some very exciting news with fans - the actor has co-created a new Sky original series called I Hate Suzie.

"Been bursting at the seams to tell people this. My hands are shaking with excitement as I write," Billie said on Twitter when she revealed the news.

I Hate Suzie: What's it about?

Written by Emmy-nominee and critically acclaimed Lucy Prebble (Succession, Enron) and co-created by Piper, I Hate Suzie is an eight-part series about a star who's life changes direction after her phone is hacked.

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Sky describes the drama as "a bold, bracing, funny drama about the moment in life when the mask slips, asking if any us can survive being well and truly ‘known’. Suzie Pickles (Piper), a star on the wane, has her whole life upended when her phone is hacked and a photo of her emerges in an extremely compromising position.

"This excruciatingly honest show reveals her unmasking and its trauma episode by episode, through the stages of Shock, Denial, Fear, Shame, Bargaining, Guilt, Anger and Acceptance as Suzie and her best friend and manager Naomi try to hold her life, career and marriage together in the face of being exposed for who she truly is."

Billie Piper said of the project: “It’s taken years to finally get Lucy, my long-term GF and favourite writer in London - to work with me again. We feel we’ve created something timely and not for the faint-hearted. If you too suffer with anxiety, shame, compulsive lying but like a laugh, please tune in at some point.”

Lucy Prebble added: “At last I get to make my best friend Billie Piper do terrible things on screen again. It is all I live for.”

Cameron Roach, Sky Studios director of drama, said: “Lucy’s scripts promise a vital, moving and darkly funny portrayal of the thirty-something woman, and the prospect of Billie bringing Suzie to life is thrilling."

I Hate Suzie: When's it on TV?

I Hate Suzie will air on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV in 2020.