Scripted series · BBC One
Can You Keep a Secret?
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Can You Keep a Secret? actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Can You Keep a Secret? reads strongest on Bingeability, Humour and Character Depth.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
Debbie Fenton is a granny, lawn bowler, tinpot dictator - who will stop at nothing to make sure her family's protected. Unfortunately, most of the time the person they really need protecting from is her. When her hermit-like husband William unexpectedly dies, she makes an outlandish decision that will put the family under more pressure than ever before.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Lauriel MartinProducer
- Simon Mayhew-ArcherExecutive Producer
- Joseph ScantleburyProducer
- Toby WelchExecutive Producer
- Dawn FrenchExecutive Producer
- Kenton AllenExecutive Producer
Where to watch
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