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Platform Seven, starring Jasmine Jobson as Lisa, a ghost investigating her own death at Peterborough station.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv_adapted.literary_classic_adaptations.contemporary-literary-drama-adaptations.thriller-and-crime-adaptations.yr-1962-2023", "markdown": "# Platform 7\n\n**Platform 7** is a four-part British supernatural thriller television series adapted by Paula Milne from Louise Doughty's 2019 bestselling novel *Platform Seven*, following Lisa, the ghost of a young woman trapped in the railway station where she died, who investigates the mystery of her own death after witnessing a suicide on the same platform.[1](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7) • [2](https://www.itv.com/presscentre/sites/default/files/2023-11/Platform%207%20Press%20Pack.pdf) It was commissioned by ITV's Head of Drama Polly Hill from Dancing Ledge Productions and streamed on ITVX from 7 December 2023, ahead of linear transmission on ITV1.[1](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7) • [3](https://louisedoughty.com/drama/)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Format | Four-part series, 4 × 60 minutes as commissioned; ITVX lists episodes of about 45 minutes[1](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7) • [4](https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/platform-7-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0xmdi4mzmy) |\n| Source | Adapted by Paula Milne from the novel *Platform Seven* by Louise Doughty[1](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7) |\n| Broadcast | ITVX premiere on 7 December 2023, ahead of linear transmission on ITV1[3](https://louisedoughty.com/drama/) • [1](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7) |\n| Lead cast | Jasmine Jobson as Lisa, with Toby Regbo as Matt, Yaamin Chowdhury as Akash, and Phil Davis as Edward[1](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7) |\n| Production | Dancing Ledge Productions; directed by Geoffrey Sax, produced by Rosalie Carew[1](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7) |\n| Setting | Peterborough railway station, where Lisa died and remains trapped as a ghost[2](https://www.itv.com/presscentre/sites/default/files/2023-11/Platform%207%20Press%20Pack.pdf) • [5](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfilm/platform-7-itvx-jasmine-jobson-review-b1125393.html) |\n| Content advice | Strong language and suicide themes; BBFC notes a scene in which a person takes their own life[4](https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/platform-7-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0xmdi4mzmy) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Premise\n\nThe series opens a year after Lisa's death. She is marooned in the train station where she died, with no memory of who she was, unseen and unheard by the living.[6](https://www.itv.com/presscentre/media-packs/platform-7) • [7](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/dec/07/platform-7-review-this-tedious-thriller-is-a-waste-of-good-actors) When a troubled man named Edward throws himself in front of a train on Platform 7, he joins her in what the story treats as a purgatorial afterlife, and the suicide prompts Lisa to investigate her own death.[2](https://www.itv.com/presscentre/sites/default/files/2023-11/Platform%207%20Press%20Pack.pdf) • [7](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/dec/07/platform-7-review-this-tedious-thriller-is-a-waste-of-good-actors)\n\nHer fragmented memories return across the four episodes. When her parents and her boyfriend Matt visit the station to lay flowers, she finds she can follow them out and roam the wider world, and the flashbacks this allows let her piece together the events of her last year alive.[7](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/dec/07/platform-7-review-this-tedious-thriller-is-a-waste-of-good-actors) The official record of her death was suicide, but she was a teacher who was happy and loved, and she comes to suspect the truth is otherwise.[7](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/dec/07/platform-7-review-this-tedious-thriller-is-a-waste-of-good-actors) Transport Police officer Akash Lockhart takes an interest in her case, and by the final episode races to gather evidence to have it reopened so that Lisa can obtain justice.[2](https://www.itv.com/presscentre/sites/default/files/2023-11/Platform%207%20Press%20Pack.pdf)\n\n### Cast and characters\n\n- **Lisa Evans** ([Jasmine Jobson](https://www.edgepedia.org/jasmine-jobson)), a primary school teacher from [Peterborough](https://www.edgepedia.org/peterborough) whose ghost haunts Platform 7[1](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7) • [5](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfilm/platform-7-itvx-jasmine-jobson-review-b1125393.html)\n- **Matt** ([Toby Regbo](https://www.edgepedia.org/toby-regbo)), Lisa's boyfriend[1](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7)\n- **Akash Lockhart** (Yaamin Chowdhury), a Transport Police officer who investigates her death[1](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7) • [2](https://www.itv.com/presscentre/sites/default/files/2023-11/Platform%207%20Press%20Pack.pdf)\n- **Edward** (Phil Davis), a troubled man whose suicide on Platform 7 gives Lisa company[1](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7) • [7](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/dec/07/platform-7-review-this-tedious-thriller-is-a-waste-of-good-actors)\n- Reece Ritchie also stars, and the French episode guide lists Rhiannon Clements as Izzy, Sacha Parkinson as Melissa, and Tábata Cerezo as Rosaria Diaz[1](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7) • [9](https://www.a-suivre.org/annuseries/encyclopedie/series.php?series=14671)\n\n## Origin of the novel\n\nDoughty set the novel on Peterborough railway station, a place she knew from decades of changing trains there between the [East Midlands](https://www.edgepedia.org/east-midlands), Leeds, Norwich, and London. She described a long-standing private joke that if she went to purgatory she would find herself trapped on Peterborough station on a freezing November night, and said the idea came from a railway station as a metaphor for purgatory, with a young woman who died there in mysterious circumstances and cannot leave until the mystery of her death is solved.[2](https://www.itv.com/presscentre/sites/default/files/2023-11/Platform%207%20Press%20Pack.pdf)\n\n## Production\n\nITV commissioned the 4 × 60\" series from Dancing Ledge Productions, the company behind *The Responder* and *The Salisbury Poisonings*, with Paula Milne, whose credits include *Him*, *The Politician's Husband*, and *White Heat*, writing the adaptation.[1](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7) Jasmine Jobson, known for her BAFTA-nominated role as Jaq in *Top Boy*, was cast as Lisa in January 2023.[1](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7)\n\nThe executive producers were Dancing Ledge's Managing Director Chris Carey, CEO Laurence Bowen, and BAFTA-winning executive producer Kate Triggs, with Milne and Doughty also serving as executive producers; Doughty had earlier said she thought the novel could never be filmed.[1](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7) • [2](https://www.itv.com/presscentre/sites/default/files/2023-11/Platform%207%20Press%20Pack.pdf) Rosalie Carew produced and Geoffrey Sax directed.[1](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7) Filming was scheduled for London from October 2022 and had completed by the casting announcement's publication.[8](https://www.productionlist.com/production/platform-7) • [1](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7) [Fremantle](https://www.edgepedia.org/fremantle) handled international distribution, and the series was positioned as an ITVX premiere many months ahead of linear transmission on ITV1.[1](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7)\n\n## Reception\n\nBritish critics received the series poorly. Lucy Mangan's review in *The Guardian* called it a thriller that is not very thrilling, criticizing the script as very thin and the four parts as feeling like a long watch, while crediting Phil Davis as an immutably powerful presence.[7](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/dec/07/platform-7-review-this-tedious-thriller-is-a-waste-of-good-actors) Vicky Jessop in the *London Evening Standard* found the first episode drowned in exposition and Jobson underused as a ghost who cannot speak to anyone, though she judged that the underlying storyline, once the show moves beyond the ghost limbo, has potential.[5](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfilm/platform-7-itvx-jasmine-jobson-review-b1125393.html)\n\n## Classification and availability\n\nThe [British Board of Film Classification](https://www.edgepedia.org/british-board-of-film-classification) classified the episodes for VOD/streaming on 25 February 2025, with Amazon Media EU S.à r.l. as distributor, recording content advice of strong language, a visually detailed suicide scene, flashing images, and scenes in which a woman is stalked, chased, and grabbed.[4](https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/platform-7-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0xmdi4mzmy) ITVX carries the series with subtitles and [British Sign Language](https://www.edgepedia.org/british-sign-language) access, and carries the warning \"Strong language and suicide themes\" with support details at itv.com/advice.[10](https://www.itv.com/watch/platform-7/10a2973)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Jasmine Jobson lands lead role in Platform 7, Fremantle (25 January 2023)](https://fremantle.com/news/jasmine-jobson-lands-lead-role-in-platform-7)\n2. [Platform 7 Press Pack, ITV Press Centre (November 2023)](https://www.itv.com/presscentre/sites/default/files/2023-11/Platform%207%20Press%20Pack.pdf)\n3. [Drama, louisedoughty.com](https://louisedoughty.com/drama/)\n4. [Platform 7, British Board of Film Classification](https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/platform-7-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0xmdi4mzmy)\n5. [Platform 7 on ITVX review, London Evening Standard (7 December 2023)](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfilm/platform-7-itvx-jasmine-jobson-review-b1125393.html)\n6. [Platform 7, ITV Press Centre media pack (28 November 2023)](https://www.itv.com/presscentre/media-packs/platform-7)\n7. [Platform 7 review, The Guardian (7 December 2023)](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/dec/07/platform-7-review-this-tedious-thriller-is-a-waste-of-good-actors)\n8. [Platform 7, Production List](https://www.productionlist.com/production/platform-7)\n9. [Quai numéro 7 (Platform 7), A-suivre series encyclopedia](https://www.a-suivre.org/annuseries/encyclopedie/series.php?series=14671)\n10. 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