Apple TV+ has revealed BAFTA Award nominee Maxine Peake, Brendan Cowell, Daniel Henshall, Jessica Wren, Zahra Newman and newcomer Chloe Geisker have joined the cast of the new six-episode thriller ‘The Dispatcher.’
The newly revealed cast joins previously announced Gotham Award winner Patrick Brammall in the lead role.
The story follows Police Detective Ian Hunt, whose life fell apart ten years ago when his young daughter Maggie disappeared without a trace. Now, working as a police dispatcher, the only thing that has kept him going is his implacable refusal to accept that she might be gone forever. When he receives a distress call from a young girl he is certain is Maggie, he will stop at nothing to find her and reunite his broken family, whatever the cost.
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Directed and executive produced by Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker Christian Schwochow (The Crown, Bad Banks, Munich – The Edge of War), the series is set in Australia and is adapted by acclaimed writer and executive producer Kris Mrksa from CWA John Creasey Dagger-winning author Ryan David Jahn’s book of the same name.
The series is executive produced by Jamie Laurenson and Hakan Kousetta at 60Forty Films, with executive producers Schwochow, Mrksa, and Joanna Werner at Werner Film Productions.
