Sheridan Smith has been announced as the star of a new TV adaptation of bestselling Lucy Clarke thriller The Castaways.The book, first published in 2020, was a hit with readers and made its way onto the Sunday Times bestsellers list, so a TV series in the works at Paramount Plus is highly-anticipated.
Sheridan, known for Mrs Biggs, The C Word and Cilla, will star alongside Showtrial's Celine Buckens as sisters who find a holiday of a lifetime turns into a devastating nightmare.
Lori (Sheridan) and Erin (Celine) think they are headed to paradise in Fiji, but after a huge fight Erin decides not to board their island-hopping plane - which, with Lori aboard, never arrives at its destination.
A heartbroken Erin is still desperate to find out what happened to her sister months on, with no wreckage or survivors ever found.
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