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Jessica Sansome

Chloe on BBC One: What it's about, filming locations, cast and where you have seen them before

If psychological thrillers are your thing then the BBC's latest offering may just be for you.

Chloe is an original six-part drama about a woman's obsession with her estranged friend.

It begins on Sunday night (February 6) at 9pm on BBC One with the second episode airing the following night on Monday at the same time.

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The subsequent episodes will then air at the same time each Sunday and Monday for the following two weeks.

But if you're more of a binge-watch kind of person, all the episodes will immediately be made available on iPlayer.

The BBC synopsis for Chloe reads: "Becky, still living with her mum and working as a temp, compares herself to the picture-perfect lives on Instagram, compulsively returning to one account: Chloe’s.

"Becky obsessively watches her seemingly flawless life through social media. But when Chloe dies suddenly, Becky’s need to find out how and why leads her to assume a new identity and engineer a ‘chance’ meeting with Chloe’s best friend, Livia, and infiltrate Chloe's group of close-knit friends."

Erin Doherty as Becky (BBC/Mam Tor Productions/Luke Varley)

It continues; "Through her alter-ego Sasha, Becky becomes a powerful, transgressive heroine; a popular, well-connected ‘someone’ with a life, and loves, that are far more exciting and addictive than the ‘no-one’ she is as Becky.

"However, the pretence soon obscures and conflates reality, and Becky risks losing herself completely in the game she is playing."

Leading the cast as social media-obsessed Becky Green is Erin Doherty.

Viewers are likely to recognise the actress for playing a young Princess Anne in the third and fourth seasons of Netflix's hit drama, The Crown.

Billy Howle as Elliot (BBC/Mam Tor Productions/Luke Varley)

Her first television appearance, however, was in an episode of the BBC's Call the Midwife in 2016 before bagging a role in the 2018 BBC miniseries Les Misérables.

Also appearing in the series is Billy Howle who plays Elliot, who was married to Chloe.

Billy was last seen appearing in BBC One's real-life drama, The Serpent, as Herman Knippenberg.

But those tuning in to watch Chloe may also recognise the 32-year-old for his roles in

E4 drama Glue, as James Warwick, and in BritBox's The Beast Must Die as Nigel Strangeways.

Erin as Becky and Pippa Bennett-Warner as Livia (BBC/Mam Tor Productions/York Tillyer)

Playing Chloe is Poppy Gilbert who recently starred as Barbie in Netflix's Stay Close.

Meanwhile, Gangs of London star Pippa Bennett-Warner stars as Livia, one of Chloe's closest friends, and Jack Farthing, who has previously starred in Poldark,The ABC Murders and The Riot Club, plays Richard.

The cast also includes Akshay Khanna as Anish , Lisa Palfrey as Pam, Estella Daniels as Christine, Eloise Thomas as a young Becky, and Jack Christou as Teenage Elliot.

Chloe was filmed in the city of Bristol as well as its surrounding countryside.

The BBC also reports that Ston Easton Country Park, Brean Down, Pill, Uphill, and Abbots Leigh in Somerset, as well as the Wiltshire town Corsham, were also used by the production.

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