The Other One (2017)
- TV sitcom
- BBC One / BBC Two
- 2017 - 2022
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Comedy about two sisters who had no idea the other existed until their father drops dead. Stars Ellie White, Lauren Socha, Christopher Jeffers, Rebecca Front, Siobhan Finneran and more.
Streaming rank this week: 4,980
Episode menu
Pilot
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 13th September 2017
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Repeats
Show past repeats
| Date | Time | Channel |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 5th June 2020 | 9:00pm | BBC1 |
| Friday 5th June 2020 | 11:55pm | BBC1 Wales |
Cast & crew
| Ellie White | Cathy |
| Lauren Socha | Cat |
| Rebecca Front | Tess |
| Siobhan Finneran | Marilyn |
| Amit Shah | Marcus |
| Brian Bovell | Rupert |
| Simon Greenall | Colin |
| Vivienne Soan | Vicar |
| Ted Robbins | Taxi Driver |
| Neil Pearson | Paul |
| Holly Walsh | Writer |
| Dan Zeff | Director |
| Pippa Brown | Producer |
| Ben Cavey | Executive Producer |
| Alex Moody | Executive Producer |
| David Simpson | Associate Producer |
| Katie Kearney | Line Producer |
| Alan Levy | Editor |
| David Bowes | Production Designer |
| Jane Ripley | Casting Director |
| Sarah Ryan | Costume Designer |
| Sean Van Hales | Director of Photography |
| Jillian Walton | Make-up Designer |
| Amanda Neal | 1st Assistant Director |
Press
In September 2017, I wrote that The Other One was a BBC comedy pilot in search of a commission: it gained that commission and returned this week - albeit with the rerun pilot (boo), but over the next six weeks it will delight and enthral with high humour and low blows from writers Holly Walsh and Pippa Brown. The only true mystery is why the fandoodle it took so long.
It is a glorious slice-of-life comedy, way superior to so much else on these days. OK, the plot is a twitch forced - bigamist dies, leaving two disparate families, in two utterly disparate class zones - but the warmth of all within, the sharpness of the writing, the performances, particularly from Ellie White as the smiling uptight coil of a spring who can't quite leave a middle-class totem untouched and Lauren Socha as the unsprung spring who can't quite leave a working-class totem unsaid... in this will lie a certain dramatic magic.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 7th June 2020The Other One: funny, rude and piercingly sad
In this comedy of affairs and second wives, we see the family as I like to see it: generous, expansive, richly humane.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 3rd June 2020Preview - The Other One
While BBC One has been busy with its Comedy Playhouse season of pilots, BBC Two has now beginning showing pilots too.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 13th September 2017Written by sometime Sharon Horgan collaborator Holly Walsh, this sitcom pilot acts as a showcase for four brilliant, but often underserved, comic talents: Ellie White, Lauren Socha, Siobhan Finneran and Rebecca Front. The former two play sisters - one posh, one not - who only discover each other's existence after their father dies suddenly. Tension is inevitable, but it's nothing a Supertramp singalong won't soothe. Here's hoping for a full series.
Ellen E. Jones, The Guardian, 13th September 2017Holly Walsh interview
'I still watch a lot of comedies where women are basically sexy bystanders'
Siobhan Smith, i Newspaper, 12th September 2017Preview: The Other One
The first of BBC Two's new comedy pilots, The Other One, centres around two half-sisters who don't know about each other until their dad dies. Sophie Davies has had a sneak peek...
Sophie Davies, The Velvet Onion, 11th September 2017