Passionate cook Gina (Dawn French) was once married to Leo Vincent (Iain Glen), a successful entrepreneur, chef and hotel owner in Cornwall. Leo owes much of his success to Gina’s exceptional cooking, but since leaving her for the glamorous Sam (Emilia Fox), his business has continued to thrive.

When Sam has suspicions that Leo is having an affair she confides in Gina, confident that she’ll recognise the signs. Only to later discover that it’s Gina herself who is the ‘other woman’. The secrets and scandals that spill out are proof that sleeping with another woman’s husband is never a good idea – even if he was your husband first. As Sam and Gina try to fix their broken families, will a friendship rise from the ashes of betrayal or will they tear each other apart?

French has explained what attracted her to the non-comedy role: "The script was excellent. I didn’t know Phillippa [Giles, producer at Bandit Television] at all, but we met and she was full of energy and she talked me through all her ideas. Then I met the writer, Dan [Sefton, Mr Selfridge], who’s a young guy and a doctor, and annoyingly I couldn’t dismiss it any more. That was the clincher. He writes women so well. I asked him, “How do you know this stuff ?”, and he said, “I’m married, I have a mother, and a mother in law”, and he has just listened to women."

"And it was set in Cornwall so I could sleep in my bed at night and see my family, plus Cornwall gets to be the other character in the piece, so it all came together. Originally it was set by the sea, but that’s been done by Poldark and Doc Martin, so we did it inland. I love the sea, I live by the sea, and it’s so beautiful. But we are showing another side of the place."

Other Sky 1 highlights over Christmas include Yonderland, Stella, Trollied and A League of Their Own.