Lead Children vs Playing Nice
Lead Children has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.8/10 for Playing Nice). Playing Nice is the older of the two (2025 against 2026). Both are drama shows, so they suit a similar mood.
Lead Children
Playing Nice| Lead Children | Playing Nice | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.8/10 |
| Year | 2026 | 2025 |
| Seasons | 1 | 1 |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Creator / director | – | Grace Ofori-Attah |
| Main cast | Michał Żurawski, Joanna Kulig, Agata Kulesza, Kinga Preis, Zbigniew Zamachowski | Niamh Algar, James Norton, James McArdle, Jessica Brown Findlay, Alban Guo |
Synopsis
Lead Children
When a young doctor discovers that children living near a smelting plant suffer from lead poisoning, she risks her career and safety to save them.
Playing Nice
Set against a sweeping Cornish landscape, two couples discover that their toddlers were switched at birth in a hospital mix-up, and face a horrifying dilemma: do they keep the sons they have raised and loved, or reclaim their biological child?
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