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Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC One
Cathy’s dad just died. Colin was the most caring, generous and funny man you’d ever meet. But Colin had a massive secret. He had a mistress. Which is weird, because people with ‘Which Magazine’ subscriptions aren’t usually natural risk takers. And not only that, Colin also had another daughter with this woman – born exactly a week after Cathy. To cover his tracks, Colin decided to call both daughters ‘Catherine’, so as to reduce confusion or getting caught. His other ‘family’ – Marilyn and Cat – lived 13 miles away in a neighbouring town and knew him as an unreliable but sporadically wonderful shit.
So, now these two sets of mothers and daughters are thrown together to navigate what to do when you can’t find your cheating dad’s will and who owns what.
We follow our four women as they navigate life post Colin’s death. Will Tess ever speak to Marilyn? Will Cathy learn that being a bit more like Cat is maybe what she needs in her life right now, and will Cat learn that being a bit more Cathy is what she needs?
The Other One is our love story to siblings, mothers and shit dads. It’s a rich, big world which allows you to fall in love with our four leading women as they try to make sense of their new-found sisters and sort-of-step-mums.