Channel 5 announces new crime series The Wives

Tamzin Outhwaite, Angela Griffin and Jo Joyner are teamng up for a new Chnnel 5 thriller.

The Wives is a six-part series that follows the unravelling of one family in a summer that changes all their lives. Last year, four sisters-in-law and their families escaped to their Maltese holiday apartments, as they’ve done every summer for fifteen years.

Sylvie Morgan, played by Tamzin Outhwaite, was happily married, Natasha Morgan, played by Angela Griffin, was swimming in wealth, and Beth Morgan, played by Jo Joyner, and Annabelle Morgan, played by Christine Bottomley, were thick as thieves.

But this year, as they come together again, everything is different. Sylvie’s now single and loving life, Natasha’s hiding a desperate financial situation, Beth is barely keeping her life together and Annabelle is, well… dead.

 When Annabelle’s widower Charlie, played by Jamie Bamber, arrives with a new woman in tow, Beth tries to be happy for them, but something doesn’t sit right. Charlie’s new girlfriend Jade, played by Katie Clarkson-Hill, looks exactly like Annabelle.

Beth’s plans to have a great summer are quickly scuppered by Charlie’s odd behaviour, and her suspicion that there is more to Annabelle’s death is heightened. With lies coming to light and evidence building, the women work together and against each other to unravel the mystery and bring the culprit to justice. But with corrupt officials, drug cartels and career criminals closer to home than ever expected, have they bitten off more than they can chew?

 Further cast announced are Ben Willbond, as the eldest Morgan brother and Beth’s husband Frankie Morgan, Jonathan Forbes will play Natasha’s loving husband Sean Morgan.