Sam Heughan & Jessica De Gouw Gossip About ‘The Couple Next Door’

Fear not, Sam Heughan fans. Just as the Starz drama Outlander Season 7, Part 2 comes to a close, Heughan’s contemporary domestic thriller, The Couple Next Door, will debut on Starz. Loosely adapted from the Dutch series New Neighbours, the six-part series first aired at the end of 2023 on Channel 4 and now gets its North American airing. The Couple Next Door unearths the secrets and lies simmering within the relationships of two couples: Danny and Becka Whitwell, played by Heughan and Jessica De Gouw (Vienna Blood), and Evie Greenwood and Pete Thomas, played by Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark) and Alfred Enoch (The Critic), who live next door to one another in suburbia.

The couples meet after Evie and Pete move into the Whitwell’s seemingly bucolic neighborhood in Yorkshire. Unbeknownst to the other, both couples are in the throes of some potent interior drama. Local cop Danny Whitwell’s been hiding financial and personal secrets from his besotted yoga instructor wife. Meanwhile, pregnant Evie and Pete are trying to bridge the distance created by their disappointing fertility issues. When they all start to commingle as new friends, unexpected attraction, old resentments, and betrayals make themselves known.

Directed by Dries Vos (Suspect) and written by David Allison (Marcella), the series gives the audience a voyeur's peek into the messy interpersonal relationships we know are swirling around us every day. Despite the poor decisions made amongst this foursome, the twisty scripts and the engaging performances from the ensemble cast make getting all up in their business pretty addictive.