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EXCLUSIVE: Death in Paradise producer Red Planet Pictures has struck a deal with ITV’s Our House author Louise Candlish and is seeking more work outside the UK, helped by new owner Asacha Media Group.

Manori Ravindran International EditorSPOILER ALERT: Do not read this story if you haven’t watched Episode 4 of “Our House.”As London’s Machiavellian property market continues to feel like a real-life thriller, U.K. broadcaster ITV’s drama “Our House” capitalizes on every buyer’s worst fear of losing their hard-earned home.Starring Tuppence Middleton (“Downton Abbey”) and Martin Compston (“Line of Duty”), the four-part thriller from “Sanditon” producers Red Planet Pictures is adapted from Louise Candlish’s 2018 novel of the same name, and may actually be the only thing more anxiety-inducing than closing on anything larger than a garden shed within the M25.Middleton stars as Fi Lawson, a woman who returns home after a weekend away to discover strangers moving into her house — and her husband Bram (Compston) and children nowhere in sight.

Martin Compston is back on our TV screens tonight in brand new ITV drama Our House, based on the book by the same name.

Martin Compston is set to star in new four-part ITV drama Our House, which has commenced filming in south London.The Scottish actor, 37, best known for his role as Steve Arnott in Line Of Duty, joins Sense8's Tuppence Middleton and Spooks star Rupert Penry-Jones in the star-studded line-up. Our House is based on the best-selling 2018 book of the same name by Louise Candlish, it has been adapted by screenwriter Simon Ashdown and will be produced by Red Planet Pictures.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Death In Paradise producer Red Planet Pictures’ adaptation of Louise Candlish’s Sunday Times best-selling real-estate book Our House has been picked up by British broadcaster ITV.Red Planet announced that it had secured the rights to the novel last year and now Deadline can report that ITV has commissioned a four-part series, which will be penned by EastEnders writer Simon Ashdown.Our House tells the story of Fi Lawson, who arrives home one day to find a family of strangers moving into her house and her husband, Bram, has disappeared.

Some viewers of tonight's EastEnders were left convinced that their televisions were broken due to muffled sound effects and subtitles.