Can You Keep a Secret?

Name: Can You Keep a Secret?
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Dawn French, Mark Heap, Craig Roberts, Mandip Gill, Ian Barritt

Can You Keep a Secret? (2026 — present)

Seasons: 1, episodes: 6

Episode runtime: 28 min

Comedy

United Kingdom, United States

BBC One

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Video for the series Can You Keep a Secret? — Trailer

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Production

Big Talk Productions, Mayhay Studios, CBS Studios

Premiere

7 January 2026

Status

Returning

Creators

Simon Mayhew-Archer

Producer

Joseph Scantlebury

All team (6)

Actors

Dawn French

Debbie Fendon

Mark Heap

William

Craig Roberts

Harold 'Harry'

Mandip Gill

Neha

Ian Barritt

Geoff Varley

All actors and roles (5)

Short description

Debbie Fenton is a granny, lawn bowler, tinpot dictator - who will stop at nothing to make sure her family's protected. Unfortunately, most of the time the person they really need protecting from is her. When her hermit-like husband William unexpectedly dies, she makes an outlandish decision that will put the family under more pressure than ever before.