The unconventional five-part thriller comes from writers Penelope Skinner and Ginny Skinner, with Robbie McKillop and Nicole Charles directing. 

The series follows the complicated relationship between two very different women and the conman that binds them together in a dark, funny thriller filled with half-truths and staggering lies. 

Cheryl (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is a famous fantasy fiction author, who now lives alone with her poodle Goblin after a recent bereavement.

Alice (Rebekah Staton) is a tough PA, mother and lifelong Madonna fan and Rob (Alistair Petrie) is an oddball and lauded ecopreneur, allegedly.

Together the three strangers seem to have nothing in common, but Rob’s lies, deceptions and delusions bring them together. 

The two very different women form an unexpected friendship, as they find the power that their voices hold and use it to take charge and plan the ultimate con to take a predator down. 

The thriller looks at the rapid rise of a modern fraudster, our weakness for self-deception, and asks why it's so easy for respectable psychopaths to rise to the top.

Joining the cast is Romola Garai, who plays Alice's boss Juno Fish, an iconic designer who is famous for her brand of unique floral patterns.

Derek Jacobi, who plays Sir Ralph Unwin, who may or may not be being scammed by Rob, Julian Barratt, who plays Alice’s predictable, kind, magician husband Benjy, Karl Johnson, who plays Bill, Alice’s father and confidant, and Ellie Haddington, who plays Diane, Alice’s insufferable mother.

Production has begun on The Following Events Are Based On A Pack Of Lies and more details will be announced at a later date.