SWITCHED at birth

JAMES NORTON and NIAMH ALGAR on a story exploring every parent's worst nightmare

- STEVEN PERKINS, VICTORIA WILSON

As TV Times arrives in Cornwall to watch filming for ITV1’s much-anticipated new psychological thriller Playing Nice, we spot something different about actor James Norton: an ear piercing!

‘I got it for the job!’ grins the Happy Valley star. ‘It felt obvious that my character, Pete, should have this little hoop of silver in his ear. I quite like it – I might keep it afterwards!’

Adapted by Malpractice writer Grace Ofori-Attah from JP Delaney’s bestselling 2020 novel, the four-parter centres around Pete and his partner Maddie (Malpractice’s Niamh Algar), who are devastated to learn that their toddler, Theo, isn’t their biological son following a hospital mix-up with the baby of another couple, Miles (Mare of Easttown’s James McArdle) and Lucy (Downton Abbey’s Jessica Brown Findlay).