Paramount+ is asking audiences whether they can keep a secret.
Trailer and a February 12 premiere date have dropped for Simon Mayhew-Archer’s Can You Keep a Secret?, the comedy co-produced with the BBC starring Dawn French, Craig Roberts, Mark Heap and Mandip Gill.
In Can You Keep a Secret?, domineering granny Debbie Fendon (French) is a woman who will stop at nothing to protect her family. When her hermit-like husband, William, unexpectedly dies, she makes an outlandish decision that will put the family under more pressure than ever before. Because William isn’t actually dead – he just got mistakenly declared it and has been living in the loft while they wait for the life insurance to pay out.
Can You Keep a Secret? is produced by Big Talk Studios, Mayhay Studios and CBS Studios. Kenton Allen, Mayhew-Archer, French and Toby Welch serve as executive producers with Simon Hynd having served as director. Written and created by Mayhew-Archer, the series has already launched on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the UK and Paramount+ in the U.S. The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.