James Norton was the first A-List name to lead a small screen production this year when Playing Nice dropped on ITV earlier this week – but viewers (and critics) shared similar complaints about how much of the plot wasn’t realistic.

The James Norton-led series follows two couples who discover their children were swapped at birth, and fans have plenty of theories over who did it and why.

ITV's new drama Playing Nice has left some viewers fuming as they flocked to social media to slam the 'far-fetched' plot, with some even admitting they'd switched off.

Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson came face to face at the 2025 Golden Globes when Diesel took the stage to present the prize for cinematic and box office achievement to “Wicked.” Diesel took a pause at the start of his speech to shout out: “Hey, Dwayne.” The camera cut to Johnson awkwardly smiling in the …

James Norton seems to have a penchant for family dramas right now. In his latest movie, Joy, he plays a medic instrumental in the first IVF births, and now he stars in new ITV drama Playing Nice, about the repercussions that follow when a hospital gives parents the wrong baby.

ITV’s new four-part baby-swap drama, Playing Nice, to be specific. The story goes like this: two couples - Pete (James Norton) and his chef wife Maddie (Niamh Algar), and Miles (James McArdle) and his wife Lucy (Jessica Brown Findlay) - learn that the sons they’ve spent the last three years loving and raising are not in fact theirs.