Charlie Brooks returns in Lie With Me series on Channel 5 on Monday 6th July at 9pm, playing Anna in a 4-part miniseries built around suspicion and repair. The first episode starts a run that continues on the three consecutive evenings in the same slot.
Brooks is best known for Eastenders' Janine Butcher, but here she is seen in a new light as a wife trying to hold a family together after moving to Melbourne, Australia with Jake and their two young children. That shift from a familiar soap identity to a domestic thriller gives Channel 5 a neat piece of scheduling counter-programming.
Anna, Jake and Becky
Brett Tucker plays Jake, the husband Anna believes is cheating again after the move, while Phoebe Roberts plays Becky, the person Anna confides in about his constant texting and suspicious lunchtime meetings with his assistant. The show’s core engine is simple and efficient: a couple trying to repair their relationship, then the suspicion that the repair was never real.
That is where the 4-part structure does the work. The series does not ask viewers to settle in for a long stretch; it asks them to return on consecutive evenings and follow the pressure as it tightens. For a short-run thriller, that is the point — the pacing is the selling line.
Channel 5 from 2021
Lie With Me first aired on Channel 5 in 2021, so the current run gives viewers another chance to catch a story that was already built for compact viewing. The new start time matters because it puts the first episode back in front of an audience exactly at 9pm, then keeps the rest moving night by night without breaking the rhythm.
Mysterious events also begin to affect Anna’s domestic life, which keeps the drama from sitting entirely inside one cheating suspicion. The series has been described as a 10/10 thriller to watch tonight, and the schedule backs that up: one episode opens the door, then the next three arrive on the three consecutive evenings and keep the story moving without pause.
What Becky knows
Becky’s role is the one to watch because Anna trusts her with the details that are usually kept private — the texting, the lunches, the sense that something is off. If the series has a sharp edge, it is that Becky is not just a listener; she sits inside the same circle of doubt.
What secret Becky is harboring is the question the series leaves hanging, and that is the right note to end on. A four-night run in the same 9pm slot only works if each episode pushes the suspicion further, and Channel 5 has set this one up to do exactly that.
