The House Across the Street

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Actor Craig Parkinson, best known for his role as Matthew 'Dot' Cottan in Line of Duty, plays George, a school teacher who is new to the community and many are suspicious of him.

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At the end, Emily’s body was found. Camera crews descended to report on the tragedy. Raw and bereft, Claudia surveyed the scene through tears. Was she crying because she had hoped to find Emily alive? Or did her pain come from somewhere darker? “I just don’t want it to be over,” she told a reporter. “Not yet.” Emily’s dad is distraught when his youngest child goes missing and he soon finds himself opening up to Claudia after she finds him drunk and distressed in the local woods. Although he seems an ordinary family guy, is there more to him than meets the eye? Shirley says: "Claudia’s a quiet woman, who’s on her own a lot and in her own thoughts. She has been lonely for a while, she’s had a lot of medical things going on and I think she’s having a breakdown. Then one day everything changes when she walks up her path towards her house and sees that there’s something going on in her street. Maybe the case of missing Emily is what she needs to feel worthy and alive again."

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The House Across the Street begins on Monday October 17 2022 at 9pm on Channel 5. Episodes will also be available on My5 after airing. There will be four hour-long episodes of The House Across the Street, with the first airing on Monday, October 17 at 9pm on Channel 5 and My5. The second episode will then air the following day (Tuesday, October 18) at 9pm, with the final two instalments showing next week. Shirley says: " It’s the human condition to be curious. People are interested in the sad and the bad things that happen in life. But the thing about our story is that Claudia goes to extremes – she goes to a point where her interested could be dangerous!"

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Shirley says: "Claudia initially recognises the sadness in these parents who have lost their daughter. I don’t think she really knows she’s becoming obsessively involved, though. Maybe if she just sat down properly and thought, what on earth am I doing, she’d see it. But there’s something pulling her in. She also hasn’t got anybody to talk to about it, so it begins to emotionally affect her." The cast of The House Across the Street include Ian Lloyd Anderson, Lisa Dwyer Hogg, Shirley Henderson), Craig Parkinson, and Sara Powell (Credit: Channel 5) Who else is in the cast of The House Across the Street? Some fans have been questioning the origins of The House Across the Street since it started airing. I didn't really know what direction [The House Across the Street] was going to go with all of this. But that was enough for me to feel there's something interesting here,” she said.

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Craig says: "I found it immediately intriguing. When I read the scripts, I initially thought it was going to be one thing, and then it morphed into something else completely. Also Shirley is one of my favourite actors, so as soon as her name was mentioned I couldn’t turn the job down!" Fragile, softly spoken and hauntedly distracted, Henderson’s portrayal of Claudia was masterful. Glints of something harder – desperation? Madness? – were revealed beneath her brittle façade. Claudia was close enough to breaking point that her fixation on Emily’s disappearance made sense. As a proactive neighbour, she suddenly had a new sense of purpose and a role to play. Then there is new teacher George (Craig Parkinson) and neighbour Joanne (Sara Powell) who seems to be enjoying all the drama far too much.

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Shirley says: "Sometimes I’d sit on the pavement between scenes just to get my thoughts together and run the lines in my head. Wondering how to bring to life a character that has lots of emotional scenes is always challenging, but getting to have magic moments with such a brilliant cast and crew made it all worthwhile!" READ MORE: ITV The Larkins season 2 start date and cast as Bradley Walsh leads The Darling Buds of May remake 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. Read more: Maxine on Channel 5: Viewers slam ‘disrespectful’ true crime drama, demanding it’s pulled off screen Where was it filmed?Emily’s mum Sabine has secretly been struggling in her marriage to Owen, which isn’t as rosy as it seems from the outside. But when the police investigation takes a dramatic turn, Sabine and Claudia strike up an unlikely friendship. Speaking to RadioTimes.com, Shirley explained, “She's just hooked into something that starts to wake her up a bit, allow her to start feeling things she hasn't felt for a long time and bubble inside, good and bad.” Ian-Lloyd Anderson starred in the massive fantasy show, Game of Thrones, as well as Blood, Herself, Dublin Oldschool and more recently Redemption. Lisa Dwyer Hogg stars as Sabine Winters (Credit: Channel 5) Lisa Dwyer Hogg is Sabine in The House Across the Street

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On the surface, The House Across the Street is just another suburban drama. But there’s something sinister bubbling underneath. He’s probably best known for starring in Acorn TV’s Magpie Murders, where he plays the writer Brent. Shirley was actually 37 when she played the 14-year-old ghost who plagued the Hogwarts girls’ bathroom! Other notable TV roles include that of Marie Melmotte in The Way We Live Now, villain Frances Drummond in Happy Valley, and Siobhan in The Nest. As Claudia’s obsession with the case grows, she forges a relationship with mysterious George, an English teacher at her school and finds herself in the midst of a deepening mystery.”The House Across The Street follows Claudia, a lonely single mother. Recovering from breast cancer while working as a school nurse, Claudia’s days appear bleak. Other film roles you might recognise Shirley from include the Matron in Wild Child, Sophie in Marie Antoinette, and Lucille Hardy in Stan & Ollie.