Who's who in the Cheaters cast? BBC1 drama returns for series two

BBC1’s deed bid Cheaters is backmost for more, with a 2nd batch of episodes arriving connected the transmission connected Tuesday (November 19).

The archetypal occurrence volition aerial connected the transmission astatine 9.45pm and the follow-ups volition broadcast play — but if you can’t hold that long, they’ll each disposable to binge present on BBC iPlayer.

In the archetypal season, 2 strangers – Josh and Fola – had a drunken one-night basal successful Finland. After they returned to the UK, they realised they lived adjacent doorway to each different – and some had partners.

The 2nd play volition prime up a fewer months aft the archetypal near off, with Josh and Fola’s narration having blossomed since the affair.

However, Fola’s divorcement from her hubby Zack isn’t yet finalised, truthful she’s keen to instrumentality things dilatory – which isn’t precisely Josh’s speed.

On his end, Josh is tense astir tricky narration conversations, and helium finds himself going to utmost (and unwise) lengths to “give her immoderate space”.

Meanwhile, Zack is softly determined to triumph Fola back, portion Josh’s scorned ex-girlfriend, Esther, is returning from her travels astatine agelong last.

With those returning characters and much acquainted faces, here’s a person look astatine the formed of Cheaters.

Josh and Fola are played by Joshua McGuire (Anatomy of a Scandal, Lovesick) and Susan Wokoma.

He’s besides popped up successful 2 episodes of Industry and landed roles successful films including Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn and Steve McQueen’s 2024 warfare epic Blitz. McGuire is besides an accomplished signifier prima and, successful 2017, trod the boards other Daniel Radcliffe successful Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Wokoma is arsenic recognisable, acknowledgment to her roles successful sitcoms including Chewing Gum, Crazyhead and Year of the Rabbit.

In 2016, she featured successful a bid of Taskmaster and the versatile prima has adjacent leant her dependable to a World of Warcraft character.

The exes are played by Jack Fox (Riviera, Sanditon) and Callie Cooke (Henpocalypse, Rules of the Game).

“In the archetypal series of Cheaters, writer Oli Lyttelton created a wholly believable acceptable of characters whose romanticist complications were hilarious and compelling successful adjacent measure,” said Petra Fried of Clerkenwell Films, the accumulation institution down the deed show.

“With the aforesaid squad successful beforehand of and down the camera, it’s large to person our Cheaters backmost connected the BBC, giving america a accidental to spot if the 2 sets of neighbours are managing their recently aligned relationships, and besides introducing america to immoderate intriguing newcomers, who viewers volition conscionable successful owed course…”

The squad down the camera of Cheaters includes enforcement producers Petra Fried (Baby Reindeer, The End of the F***ing World), Emily Harrison (Somewhere Boy, The End of the F***ing World) and Charlie Langdell (Truelove, Somewhere Boy) for Clerkenwell Films, alongside Cheaters writer and creator Oliver Lyttleton (Cheaters bid one, Wedding Season), and Danielle Scott-Haughton for the BBC.

Alex Walsh-Taylor (Truelove, Lovesick) and Elliot Hegarty (Ted Lasso, Lovesick) instrumentality arsenic bid shaper and manager respectively.