The Other One (TV series)

The Other One is a British television comedy series broadcast on BBC One, written and directed by Holly Walsh, produced by Pippa Brown, and starring Ellie White, Lauren Socha, Rebecca Front, and Siobhan Finneran.

Plot[]

The sitcom follows young Catherine "Cathy" Walcott (Ellie White) & her half sister, Catherine "Cat" Walcott (Lauren Socha), who had no idea of each other's existence until their father's untimely death at a birthday party.^[2]

Production[]

Walsh was inspired to write the sitcom after hearing a true story about a man with two families who gave his kids the same name to avoid confusion or being sprung.^[3]

Cast[]

• Ellie White as Catherine "Cathy" Walcott, a woman who finds out she has a half-sister with the same name after her father's death
• Lauren Socha as Catherine "Cat" Walcott, Cathy's younger half-sister, who is introduced to her at her father's funeral
• Rebecca Front as Tess Walcott, Cathy's mother and the widow of Colin
• Siobhan Finneran as Marilyn, Colin's eccentric mistress and the mother of Cat; she suffers from agoraphobia
• Amit Shah as Dr. Marcus Tandell, Cathy's fiancé
• Simon Greenall as Colin Walcott, Cathy and Cat's late father
• Caroline Quentin as Auntie Dawn (Tess's Sister)
• Shobu Kapoor as Mrs Mishti Tandell
• Silas Carson as Mr Shray Tandell^[4]
• Neil Pearson as Paul
• Stephen Tompkinson as Mr Shipham

Broadcast[]

The Other One was broadcast on BBC1 weekly from Friday 5 June 2020 at 9pm, with all of the seven episodes of the first series available to watch on BBC iPlayer.

Reception[]

Critic Emily Baker in the i newspaper gave the first episode four stars and commented on the “stellar acting”.^[5]

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