Playing Nice (2025–2025)
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Plot
Set against a sweeping Cornish landscape, two couples discover that their toddlers were switched at birth in a hospital mix-up, and face a horrifying dilemma: do they keep the sons they have raised and loved, or reclaim their biological child?Living a waking nightmare, Pete and Maddie are jettisoned into the world of the other couple; Miles and Lucy. At first it seems all four are agreed on a solution, but it soon becomes clear that hidden motives are at play. How far can each couple trust the real parents of their child – or even each other? As Pete and Maddie are stretched to breaking point, they realise they will stop at nothing to keep their family together.
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Highest-rated episodes all ranked
- 01
Episode 3When Miles leaks the story to the press, the fallout hits Pete who soon realises that he must dig into Miles' murky past to save his family. - 02
Episode 4The conclusion of the psychological thriller series. The final court hearing looms and the boys' fate must be decided as Pete and Maddie look set to lose everything. - 03
Episode 1When Pete and Maddie find out something devastating about their son Theo, they soon meet another set of parents in the same situation.
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Season01
- S01E01Episode 1January 5, 2025When Pete and Maddie find out something devastating about their son Theo, they soon meet another set of parents in the same situation.
- S01E02
Episode 2January 6, 2025Pete and Maddie begin an expensive and painful fight to keep Theo, but the constant dredging up of their past starts to damage their relatio - S01E03Season's bestEpisode 3January 12, 2025When Miles leaks the story to the press, the fallout hits Pete who soon realises that he must dig into Miles' murky past to save his family.
- S01E04Episode 4January 13, 2025The conclusion of the psychological thriller series. The final court hearing looms and the boys' fate must be decided as Pete and Maddie loo
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