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ITV's pre-Christmas treat is a cheery little number called Platform 7, adapted from the psycho thriller by Louise Doughty.

Doughty also wrote Apple Tree Yard, turned into a popular BBC series starring Emily Watson as a 50-something scientist sleeping with a man she knows nothing about.

In , Lisa Evans (Jasmine Jobson) is a 30-year-old ghost with amnesia brought on by PTSD. Haunting her local railway station in the pyjamas she was wearing when, a year earlier, she went under a

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