Playing Nice

Playing Nice

What if your child was their child?

Created by Grace Ofori-Attah

On ITV1

20251 season4 episodes50 min6.7 / 10

A taut, emotionally devastating legal and moral thriller that traps two families in an impossible ethical dilemma with no good outcome.

Set against a sweeping Cornish landscape, two couples discover that their toddlers were switched at birth in a hospital mix-up, and face a horrifying dilemma: do they keep the sons they have raised and loved, or reclaim their biological child?

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