The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe will launch on Easter Sunday at exactly the same time an already established drama airs, forcing viewers to choose which one to prioritise and which one to relegate to catch up. And it's second episode will clash with another much loved show just a day later.
Cast your minds back 20 years ago and the story of 'missing' canoe man John Darwin rocked a whole community and made national headlines, after he was reported to have gone missing after heading into the sea in his kayak, close to his Seaton Carew home. While appeals were launched to find him and his sons were left distraught by his disappearance, the reality was that his absence wasn't due to a tragic turn of events, but the result of a wicked con, conjured up by John and wife Anne, despite her always maintaining she was forced to go along with it.
The scam saw John hiding right next door to the family home for years, before he and Anne tried to start a new life in Panama, only to be found out by a picture of them taken in a real estate office over there, after John walked into a London police station to declare himself as a missing person. The scandal caused shock waves across the country, with John and Anne's sons Mark and Anthony absolutely furious and totally crushed by how they'd been deceived by their own parents.
