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Danielle Steel: Daddy’s Girls by Danielle Steel Mean Book Club is four ladies (UCB, BuzzFeed, College Humor, Impractical Jokers) who read, discuss and whine about NYT bestselling books that have questionable literary merit. It was Canada’s bestselling book for 2016. EVP Programming Karen Bailey is overseeing The Couple Next Door for Starz, and it will be distributed by Beta Film.This week we’re reading the NYT bestseller The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena! This kidnapped baby mystery spent 22 weeks on the bestseller list from 2016-2017. The show was commissioned by Channel 4’s Caroline Hollick and Rebecca Holdsworth. The thriller is based on Dutch series New Neighbours and feeds into Eagle Eye’s strategy of turning European hits into shows for the major English-language markets, following Channel 4’s Suspect, which is based on a Danish series, and ITV’s Professor T, which is based on a show from Belgium. Marcella writer David Allison is penning The Couple Next Door, Professor T‘s Dries Vos is directing, and EPs are Jo McGrath, Walter Iuzzolino and Alison Kee. RELATED: 2023 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming He generated headlines recently when his memoir revealed how a brutal rape scene in Outlander Season 1 had impacted him negatively. Scottish actor Heughan is gearing up for a seventh season of Starz hit Outlander, in which he plays Jamie Fraser, while he is also starring in Priyanka Chopra Jonas rom-com Love Again with Celine Dion – set for May release. Other credits include Stephen Merchant comedy-drama The Outlaws and Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of David Nicholls’ One Day. Tomlinson is best known for playing Demelza Poldark opposite Aidan Turner across five seasons of hit BBC drama Poldark. streamer and UK network, who never have co-produced together, described The Couple Next Door as a “psychological drama, exploring the stultifying claustrophobia of suburbia and the fallout of chasing your darkest desires.” RELATED: 2023 Starz Pilots & Series Orders

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