THE FAMILY NEXT DOOR

The Family Next Door explores the challenges of motherhood, marriage, friendship, and the complexities of family identity and created for television by The Letdown’s Sarah Scheller.

Based on New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth’s novel of the same name and adapted for television by award-winning screenwriter Sarah Scheller (Strife, The Letdown), The Family Next Door is also written by Pip Karmel (Total Control), Julia Moriarty (Total Control) and Andrew Anastasios (Troppo), and tells the story of enigmatic Isabelle (Palmer) who moves into a small seaside cul-de-sac where her obsessive drive to solve a mystery casts suspicion on four neighbouring families. Her quest to reunite one family will have consequences for them all. 

Key cast includes Teresa Palmer (The Clearing, The Fall Guy), Bella Heathcote (The Moogai, Pieces of Her) and Philippa Northeast (Territory, The Newsreader).

Ensemble cast includes Catherine McClements (Return to Paradise, The Survivors), Ming Zhu Hii (Prosper, La Brea), Jane Harber (Offspring, In Limbo), Bob Morley (The 100, In Limbo), Daniel Henshall (Snowtown, How to Make Gravy), Tane Williams Accra (Shortland Street, Fantasy Island), Dominic Ona Ariki (One Lane Bridge, Erotic Stories) and Maria Angelico (Strife, The Newsreader).

GENRES

Scripted / Drama

DURATION

6 x one hour

BROADCASTER

ABC Australia

YEAR OF PRODUCTION

2025

COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION

Australia

PRODUCER

Melinda Wearne

DIRECTOR

Emma Freeman

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

David Ogilvy, Jenny O’Shea, Joel Rice, Meghan Mathes Jacobs, Rachel Okine, Rebecca Anderson

WRITERS

Sarah Scheller, Pip Karmel, Julia Moriarty and Andrew Anastasios

SERIES PRODUCER

Dean O’Toole

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