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What happens when your neuroses come to life? What shape will they take? Don’t open the door.

Noa (Patsy Ferran) a young Gen Z Urbanite, suffers from continual FOMO. There is always someone somewhere doing something better than the choice she has made. When trying to keep a birthday arrangement with her mum and sister and attend a fun night out with successful friends, her wish to be in two places at the same time turns deadly.CastEpisode 1 No - Patsy Ferran Jen - Susannah Fielding Mindfulness Narrator - Caroline Faber Ash - Lainey Lipson Evie - Karima McAdams Club Hostess - Nantaara Jafri Smoker - Jacob Jackson Mum - Sara Jackson Taxi Driver - Avril Poole Bus Driver/Drunk - Paul Fulberg Kevin - Henry NewtonCrewProduction Company - Clarence Beeks Co-Creator/Writer - Samantha Newton Co-Creator/Director - Rachel Zisser Executive Producer - Sara Johnson Executive Producer - Daniel M Jackson Producer - Hannah Charman, Sister Music Casting Director - Sophie Kingston-Smith Casting Assistant - Lainey Lipson Composer - Na’ama Zisser Vocalists - Tomer Damsky, Aya Gavriel, Ron Sheskin, Quantum Choir Sound engineer - Laura Blake Sound engineer - Charlie Braham Sound engineer - Gareth Wood Sound Recording - The Sound Company Vocalist Recording - Marco Milevski, Mazkeka Studio Sound Design - King Lear Music & Sound Lead Sound Designer - Dugal Macdiarmid Asst Sound Designer - Ned Sisson Asst Sound Designer - Lauren Cooper

Tanya (Ella Bruccoleri) is home looking after her baby daughter while her wife Kate (Karima McAdams) works overseas. Their plans to try for more children fuels Tanya’s anxieties about the plastic crisis. As her panic about their impact on the planet grows larger…. so does the fatberg beneath their flat. They learn the hard way that the waste they create will come back to them as either food, or poison.CastTanya - Ella Bruccoleri Katie - Karima McAdams Mindfulness Narrator - Caroline Faber Police Officer/Newsreader - Annabel Miller Noa - Patsy Ferran Kevin - Henry NewtonCrewProduction Company - Clarence Beeks Co-Creator/Writer - Samantha Newton Co-Creator/Director - Rachel Zisser Executive Producer - Sara Johnson Executive Producer - Daniel M Jackson Producer - Hannah Charman, Sister Music Casting Director - Sophie Kingston-Smith Casting Assistant - Lainey Lipson Composer - Na’ama Zisser Vocalists - Tomer Damsky, Aya Gavriel, Ron Sheskin, Quantum Choir Sound engineer - Laura Blake Sound engineer - Charlie Braham Sound engineer - Gareth Wood Sound Recording - The Sound Company Vocalist Recording - Marco Milevski, Mazkeka Studio Sound Design - King Lear Music & Sound Lead Sound Designer - Dugal Macdiarmid Asst Sound Designer - Ned Sisson Asst Sound Designer - Lauren Cooper

Magnus (Alistair Petrie) is a surgeon who secretly believes that if he doesn’t do his daily rituals, his patients will die. We follow Magnus through the habitual voicemail messages he leaves for his ex-girlfriend Julia, but with each day she doesn’t answer, his rituals are further interrupted. The mindfulness podcast he listens to, in a desperate attempt to change, isn’t helping and might in fact be making things much worse.CastMagnus - Alistair Petrie Julia - Ella Bruccoleri Mindfulness Narrator - Caroline Faber Old Lady - Tamar Baruch Voicemail/Lift - Stevie Ward Doctor - Annabel Miller Man - John Newton Kevin - Henry NewtonCrewProduction Company - Clarence Beeks Co-Creator/Writer - Samantha Newton Co-Creator/Director - Rachel Zisser Executive Producer - Sara Johnson Executive Producer - Daniel M Jackson Producer - Hannah Charman, Sister Music Casting Director - Sophie Kingston-Smith Casting Assistant - Lainey Lipson Composer - Na’ama Zisser Vocalists - Tomer Damsky, Aya Gavriel, Ron Sheskin, Quantum Choir Sound engineer - Laura Blake Sound engineer - Charlie Braham Sound engineer - Gareth Wood Sound Recording - The Sound Company Vocalist Recording - Marco Milevski, Mazkeka Studio Sound Design - King Lear Music & Sound Lead Sound Designer - Dugal Macdiarmid Asst Sound Designer - Ned Sisson Asst Sound Designer - Lauren Cooper

Alfie (George Robinson) and Lily (Izuka Hoyle) are in the first flush of love, when Alfie - who is prone to hypochondria - develops a cough. His worries about the cancer that killed his father, Lily’s exes and the malevolent fortune cookie at his birthday meal, result in a lump in his throat. Lily’s efforts - and her hair – seem to be as much a part of the problem as the solution as they both soon discover.CastAlfie - George Robinson Lily - Izuka Hoyle Mindfulness Narrator - Caroline Faber Radiographer - Daniel M Jackson Waiter - Avril Poole Singing diner - Dugal Macdiarmid Documentary narrator - Annabel Miller Kevin - Henry NewtonCrewProduction Company - Clarence Beeks Co-Creator/Writer - Samantha Newton Co-Creator/Director - Rachel Zisser Executive Producer - Sara Johnson Executive Producer - Daniel M Jackson Producer - Hannah Charman, Sister Music Casting Director - Sophie Kingston-Smith Casting Assistant - Lainey Lipson Composer - Na’ama Zisser Vocalists - Tomer Damsky, Aya Gavriel, Ron Sheskin, Quantum Choir Sound engineer - Laura Blake Sound engineer - Charlie Braham Sound engineer - Gareth Wood Sound Recording - The Sound Company Vocalist Recording - Marco Milevski, Mazkeka Studio Sound Design - King Lear Music & Sound Lead Sound Designer - Dugal Macdiarmid Asst Sound Designer - Ned Sisson Asst Sound Designer - Lauren Cooper

Keri (Morfydd Clark) and Barden (Greg McHugh) have worked hard to buy their city centre flat with a bird’s eye view of the park. The only thing in the way of them throwing a successful housewarming for Keri’s judgemental workmates, are the bird droppings and squawks of the nesting magpies above their balcony. When Keri decides to take action, the birds retaliate in defence of their nest, bringing the age-old battle between human and nature to a shattering climax.CastKeri - Morfydd Clark Barden - Greg McHugh Mindfulness Narrator - Caroline Faber Gabby - Laura Blake Cersei - Esther Joy Lane Pest Control - Avril Poole Party Guest - Nantaara Jafri Party Guest - Sean Williams Party Guest - Karima McAdams Kevin - Henry NewtonCrewProduction Company - Clarence Beeks Co-Creator/Writer - Samantha Newton Co-Creator/Director - Rachel Zisser Executive Producer - Sara Johnson Executive Producer - Daniel M Jackson Producer - Hannah Charman, Sister Music Casting Director - Sophie Kingston-Smith Casting Assistant - Lainey Lipson Composer - Na’ama Zisser Vocalists - Tomer Damsky, Aya Gavriel, Ron Sheskin, Quantum Choir Sound engineer - Laura Blake Sound engineer - Charlie Braham Sound engineer - Gareth Wood Sound Recording - The Sound Company Vocalist Recording - Marco Milevski, Mazkeka Studio Sound Design - King Lear Music & Sound Lead Sound Designer - Dugal Macdiarmid Asst Sound Designer - Ned Sisson Asst Sound Designer - Lauren Cooper

Ben (David Mumeni) and his wife Cammie (Susannah Fielding) are a high-value high-spend couple, but Ben is worried that he won’t be making bonus this month. When he decides to short-change all the service workers and staff who help maintain his comfortable lifestyle, his kids (played by newcomers Henry and Laila Newton) are the ones who suffer. Will Ben listen to his son’s warnings of the man without a face?CastBen - David Mumeni Cammie - Susannah Fielding Sophia - Laila Newton Kevin - Henry Newton Anisa - Roni Zisser Mindfulness Narrator - Caroline Faber Teacher - Annabel Miller Teaching Asst - Avril Poole Dad at pickup - Dugal Macdiarmid Mum at pickup - Louise Heard Delivery Guy - Jacob Jackson Answer Bot - Susannah Fielding Old lady - Tamar BaruchCrewProduction Company - Clarence Beeks Co-Creator/Writer - Samantha Newton Co-Creator/Director - Rachel Zisser Executive Producer - Sara Johnson Executive Producer - Daniel M Jackson Producer - Hannah Charman, Sister Music Casting Director - Sophie Kingston-Smith Casting Assistant - Lainey Lipson Composer - Na’ama Zisser Vocalists - Tomer Damsky, Aya Gavriel, Ron Sheskin, Quantum Choir Sound engineer - Laura Blake Sound engineer - Charlie Braham Sound engineer - Gareth Wood Sound Recording - The Sound Company Vocalist Recording - Marco Milevski, Mazkeka Studio Sound Design - King Lear Music & Sound Lead Sound Designer - Dugal Macdiarmid Asst Sound Designer - Ned Sisson Asst Sound Designer - Lauren Cooper

The lonely life of Christopher (Ncuti Gatwa) is significantly improved when he rescues a puppy. When his neighbour Magnus (Alistair Petrie) threatens to report the dog, Christopher sinks into a depression. His feelings of being trapped turn physical, and he struggles to combat the almost paralysing aloneness and fear, that increases after discovering Magnus’s fate.CastChristopher - Ncuti Gatwa Magnus - Alistair Petrie Old lady - Tamar Baruch Mindfulness Narrator - Caroline Faber Sophia - Laila Newton Kevin - Henry Newton Voicemail - Stevie Ward Dog Pound worker - Samantha NewtonCrewProduction Company - Clarence Beeks Co-Creator/Writer - Samantha Newton Co-Creator/Director - Rachel Zisser Executive Producer - Sara Johnson Executive Producer - Daniel M Jackson Producer - Hannah Charman, Sister Music Casting Director - Sophie Kingston-Smith Casting Assistant - Lainey Lipson Composer - Na’ama Zisser Vocalists - Tomer Damsky, Aya Gavriel, Ron Sheskin, Quantum Choir Sound engineer - Laura Blake Sound engineer - Charlie Braham Sound engineer - Gareth Wood Sound Recording - The Sound Company Vocalist Recording - Marco Milevski, Mazkeka Studio Sound Design - King Lear Music & Sound Lead Sound Designer - Dugal Macdiarmid Asst Sound Designer - Ned Sisson Asst Sound Designer - Lauren Cooper

Desperate to hold off the aging process, twenty something Julia (Ella Bruccoleri) decides to get a radical new beauty treatment from a mysterious dentist’s office in the city. The next day an altered Julia (Tamar Baruch) goes about her day until she realises the drastic change that has occurred. When she returns to the dentist’s office her confusion and panic builds on what she finds. Her obsessive need to turn back time finds her trapped behind the door that nobody should ever open.CastJulia - Ella Bruccoleri Old Julia - Tamar Baruch Mindfulness Narrator - Caroline Faber Dentist - Daniel Jackson Dentist Receptionist - Caroline Faber Jen/Cammie - Susannah Fielding Kevin - Henry Newton Ben - David Mumeni Alfie - George Robinson Interview Receptionist - Sean WilliamsCrewProduction Company - Clarence Beeks Co-Creator/Writer - Samantha Newton Co-Creator/Director - Rachel Zisser Executive Producer - Sara Johnson Executive Producer - Daniel M Jackson Producer - Hannah Charman, Sister Music Casting Director - Sophie Kingston-Smith Casting Assistant - Lainey Lipson Composer - Na’ama Zisser Vocalists - Tomer Damsky, Aya Gavriel, Ron Sheskin, Quantum Choir Sound engineer - Laura Blake Sound engineer - Charlie Braham Sound engineer - Gareth Wood Sound Recording - The Sound Company Vocalist Recording - Marco Milevski, Mazkeka Studio Sound Design - King Lear Music & Sound Lead Sound Designer - Dugal Macdiarmid Asst Sound Designer - Ned Sisson Asst Sound Designer - Lauren Cooper