Can You Keep a Secret

Broadcaster: BBC1

Duration: 6 x 60'

Transmitted: 7 January 2026

Unique family comedy with a crime twist. After a wacky misunderstanding, retired couple Debbie and William Fendon fraudulently take £250,000 worth of life insurance money. To keep up the act, William must pretend to be dead... Indefinitely! The stakes escalate when the Fendons receive a blackmail threat, putting the whole family at risk. A sharp season-long mystery keeps viewers guessing: who is blackmailing the Fendons, and can they keep up the ruse?