New drama. On 4 nights next week
Mon Tue wed thur
ITV 9pm
Platform 7 is a British four-part psychological thriller television series based on the 2019 novel Platform Seven by Louise Doughty (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LouiseDoughtyy), adapted by Paula Milne (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PaulaaMilne) an
d developed by Dancing Ledge Productions for
ITVX (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITVX)
. It was released on ITVX on 7 December 2023,
Sadly seem the book and film have different endings
Annoys me when that happens. If a good enough book then why change it ……
A young woman called Lisa (Jasmine Jobson) is trapped in a train station, a year on from dying under the wheels of a train, with no memory beyond fragments of her life.
Her spirit goes unseen and unheard until a troubled man, Edward (Phil Davis), throws himself in front of another train and joins her in the purgatorial afterlife.
When Lisa’s parents and her boyfriend, Matt (Toby Regbo), visit to lay flowers at the spot where she died, she finds she is able to follow them out of the station and roam the wider world.
The flashbacks thus prompted allow her to piece together those fragments of memory and she soon discovers that Something Is Amiss.
She was a teacher, she was happy, she was loved, so why would she (as the investigation into her death asked) take her own life?
As her father says on the station platform: “It doesn’t make sense. She had everything going for her.”
Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November morning is confident he’s alone.
As he sits on the metal bench at the far end of the platform it is clear his choice is strategic – he’s as far away from the night staff as he can get. What the man doesn’t realise is that he has company.
Lisa Evans knows what he has decided. She knows what he is about to do as she tries and fails to stop him walking to the platform edge
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