The House Across the Street consists of four episodes with episodes one and two coming out on Monday and Tuesday last week. Unforgotten actor Sara Powell plays their neighbor Joanne, Out of Innocence’s Ronan Leahy plays Joanne’s husband Dave and Luke Griffin from The Frankenstein Chronicles plays Leon - Shirley’s ex-husband. The House Across The Street show follows cancer survivor and school nurse Claudia who feels out of place and emotionally disconnected from her son Rhys and community.

The House Across the Street (TV Mini Series 2022) - IMDb

but when the case turns into a murder inquiry, just what happened to Emily and who took her from the local park in broad daylight? Some limited series in the past have gone on to have more episodes, such as Big Little Lies, Euphoria and The Flight Attendant on other channels and streaming platforms. The House Across The Street focuses on the life of an isolated mum, Claudia, who is also a nurse recovering from breast cancer. The Channel 5 drama’s title is also reasonably similar to Netflix’s thriller-comedy series, The Woman In the House Across The Street From the Girl in the Window, which was released in January 2022. One annoyed viewer wrote: "I’m sorry but would the police not find a random woman banging on the door of a strangers house demanding information, and then leaning up against the door a tad weird?

He recently starred as DS Norman Potting in ITV’s Grace, and has had recent guest appearances in Hullraisers, Vera, and Sandylands. He doesn’t know that many people in the area, but he begins a friendship with Claudia that turns, he believes, into a sort of relationship. Ian Lloyd Anderson plays Owen, the father of the missing child, while Lisa Dwyer Hogg is Sabine, the distraught mother. The show has four episodes altogether with the second airing on Tuesday, October 18 and the next round starting on Monday the following week.

The House Across the Street preview: Shirley Henderson stars The House Across the Street preview: Shirley Henderson stars

Shirley says: "Sometimes I’d sit on the pavement between scenes just to get my thoughts together and run the lines in my head. Few people can do “woman with an albatross on her shoulders” through pure body language like Shirley Henderson can. A lonely single mother recovering from cancer, Claudia find herself alienated from her son and overlooked by her community. Instead, the show is understood to be an original, purely fictional series written by White House Farm creator Giula Sandler.She really likes him, so she's sad, although I think she's attracted to him in a way that she maybe doesn't want to be.

The House Across the Street, review: a pleasingly off-kilter

The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused. Last week I slogged to the end of ITV’s The Suspect, mainly because I couldn’t rest without knowing why that plumber kept popping up in the kitchen with suspiciously timed offers of coffee and/or beating up photographers in the back garden. Longing for connection, Claudia spots an opportunity when a young local girl, Emily Winter, goes missing.Hence she was an inspired choice to play weirdo Claudia in The House Across the Street, a sad, lonely, introverted school nurse who would have terrified me if I’d had to go to her with a nosebleed.