THE CUCKOO TV SERIES
WITH JILL HALFPENNY AND LEE INGLEBY
Channel 5 has announced start date for their new four part thriller series THE CUCKOO which stars Monday April 8th and will air every evening till Thursday. It follows Sian (Jill Halfpenny), a lodger who is taken
in by Nick (Lee Ingleby) and Jessica (Claire Goose).
They have just bought the house of their dreams, a grand doer-upper in
the countryside town that Jessica grew up in. However, as the financial
crisis hits the family fall on tough 
times and suddenly their home is on
the line.
They are forced to pull their adopted teenage daughter Alice (Freya Hannan-Mills) out
of her private school and into the local comprehensive. Nick finds
another job, but it’s still 
not enough to make ends meet. With no other
choice, Jessica decides they need to take in Sian as a lodger to help.
Sian is beautiful, flirty, and mysterious and immediately begins sowing
discord within the family – acting too familiar 
with Nick, borrowing
Jessica’s clothes, and building an increasingly inappropriate rapport
with Alice. Jessica begins to question if Sian is really who she claims
to be? Quickly she realises something more insidious and twisted is
going on and Jessica, Nick and Alice will be forced to fight for each
other and their own lives.
in by Nick (Lee Ingleby) and Jessica (Claire Goose).
They have just bought the house of their dreams, a grand doer-upper in
the countryside town that Jessica grew up in. However, as the financial
crisis hits the family fall on tough 
times and suddenly their home is on
the line.
They are forced to pull their adopted teenage daughter Alice (Freya Hannan-Mills) out
of her private school and into the local comprehensive. Nick finds
another job, but it’s still 
not enough to make ends meet. With no other
choice, Jessica decides they need to take in Sian as a lodger to help.
Sian is beautiful, flirty, and mysterious and immediately begins sowing
discord within the family – acting too familiar 
with Nick, borrowing
Jessica’s clothes, and building an increasingly inappropriate rapport
with Alice. Jessica begins to question if Sian is really who she claims
to be? Quickly she realises something more insidious and twisted is
going on and Jessica, Nick and Alice will be forced to fight for each
other and their own lives. 
