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Sky Arts' Playhouse Presents is a collection of independent television plays. The series premiered on Sky Arts 1 on April 12, 2012. Each episode has a different writer and cast. The four-part adaption of A Country Doctor's Notebook was also aired on the strand in December 2012. Sky Arts has announced the commissioning of a five-part spin-off of the third play Nixon's The One. They report that the whole cast, including Harry Shearer as Nixon and Henry Goodman as Kissinger, will return for the September 2012 filming of the series' second season. In2013, the series will air. Kathy Burke, Frances Barber, Julia Davis, Idris Elba, Anna Friel, Rebecca Front, Stephen Graham, David Harewood, Ian Hart, Sharon Horgan, Mathew Horne, Suranne Jones, Kylie Minogue, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter Serafinowicz, Matt Smith, Johnny Vegas, Marc Warren, Jack Whitehall, and Reggie Yates appeared in the second season, which began airing in April 2013.