Switch features four chums (Lacey Turner, Hannah Tointon, Nina Toussaint-White and Phoebe Fox) who with a bucket and a seemingly endless supply of feathers can turn back time, resurrect the dead (well, a cat) and use witchcraft to sort out their romantic lives. From the writers of Secret Diary of a Call Girl, it’s sort of an anglicised Charmed.
Invariably, the spells don’t quite work, and the hoops the girls go through to get out of trouble form the heart of the drama. It’s all a little breathless — Caroline Quentin plays it larger than life as an über-earth mothery witch — and the London Borough of Camden must be overjoyed at the free publicity. But the episode ends with a neat touch of acid to temper the jollity.
Invariably, the spells don’t quite work, and the hoops the girls go through to get out of trouble form the heart of the drama. It’s all a little breathless — Caroline Quentin plays it larger than life as an über-earth mothery witch — and the London Borough of Camden must be overjoyed at the free publicity. But the episode ends with a neat touch of acid to temper the jollity.
ABOUT THIS PROGRAMME
1/6. Supernatural comedy drama following four young witches as they try to make their way in London. After months apart, the quartet are reunited when career-focused Stella sends out a `switch' text summoning the rest of the gang home, desperate to cast a spell to resolve a fatal mistake which threatens her job. Starring Lacey Turner, Phoebe Fox, Hannah Tointon and Nina Toussaint-White.
