Created by Clerkenwell Films, the studio behind The End of the F***ing World, the series will star Joshua McGuire (Industry), Susan Wokoma (Year of the Rabbit), Callie Cooke (Britannia) and Jack Fox (Riviera).

An eighteen-episode story told in in ten-minute chapters, Cheaters follows two strangers in their late twenties who are brought together by a chance encounter when their cancelled flight leads to an unlikely night of drunken airport-hotel sex.

As they hurriedly get ready for their rescheduled flight the next morning, Fola (Wokoma) and Josh (McGuire) both admit that they are with other people – Fola is married to Zack (Fox) and Josh is in a long-term relationship with Esther (Cooke).

After a heated argument in the airport, the pair proceed to ignore each other on the plane before admitting the previous passionate night was a mistake and going their separate ways. As Josh gets off at the bus stop outside his house, he is horrified to see Fola pulling up in a taxi across the road and entering the house she has just bought with her husband. Josh and Fola are going to be neighbours, and to make life even more complicated, Esther and Zack are keen to be friends.  

Written and created by Oliver Lyttelton, Cheaters is directed by Elliot Hegarty (Ted Lasso). Further casting includes Andrea Valls (Waffle the Wonder Dog), Shiloh Coke (Pirates) and Jay Lycurgo (Titans).

Cheaters starts on Tuesday 8 February at 9.45pm on BBC One, and all episodes will be available to watch as a boxset on BBC iPlayer.