Airdate: Harrow

ABC is returning local dramas to Friday nights with confirmation that Harrow will screen at 8:30pm Fridays from March 9.

The timeslot has been successful for both The Doctor Blake Mysteries and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, and this week Head of Programming Rebecca Heap indicated she was mixing up Drama timeslots in 2018.

Harrow, produced by Hoodlum Entertainment, has been filmed in Brisbane and stars Ioan Gruffudd, as a brilliant and unorthodox forensic pathologist.

It also features Mirrah Foules, Remy Hii, Darren Gilshenan, Anna Lise Phillips, Damien Garvey, Ella Newton, Hunter Page-Lochard and Robyn Malcolm.

Daniel Harrow is a brilliant forensic pathologist who solves the cases others can’t. When a secret from his past threatens his career and his family, he’ll need all his wit and forensic genius to keep one crime buried forever.

Dr. Daniel Harrow (Ioan Gruffudd) is the senior medical examiner at the Queensland Institute of Forensic Medicine – the morgue to which all unnatural deaths in the city are brought.

Harrow is smart. Harrow is impatient. He is a dedicated scientist and a maverick rule breaker. And he is cool. He’s cool because he is comfortable in his own skin. He is confident and knows just how good he is – he’s the best pathologist in the state and probably the country – but that is not ego, just fact. He is not out to impress, and truly doesn’t care what most others think of him. What he cares about is the truth.

He is curious. He is restless. He doesn’t just want to know what happened; he wants to know why. And the answer to the why invariably lies in understanding the person. Human nature – in all its glory and all its warts, its goodness and darkness, its complexity and contradictions – holds the answer.

Harrow’s uncanny insights into human nature set him apart, giving him a unique ability to decipher the final moments of the dead … and give them a voice.

But 20 years of working with victims of violent crime has taken its toll. It’s cost Harrow his marriage, his relationship with his daughter Fern, and his own peace of mind. He does his job, and he does it better than anyone. But he dreams of sailing away on his beloved yacht and never coming back.

Then, everything changes: A new case lands in his morgue; the skeletal remains of a man have been dredged from the river, cocooned in concrete. However this discovery comes as no surprise to Harrow…

Because he’s the one who put the body there.

We’re left with two possibilities: our hero – our clever, committed, morally upright pathologist – has either committed murder, or helped someone else cover up their crime.

Now, the clock is ticking. Harrow is quick to take on the case. He gives no clue about why he’s so fascinated by it, but inside he is in turmoil: torn between his ironclad integrity and his dark secret. Harrow must use his unique forensic skills to conceal the crime. But how long can he keep his secret hidden when the people he works with every day have the skills to expose him?

As Harrow stalls for time, he must take on cases that are as fascinating as they are heartbreaking.

Over the course of the series, as more layers of his own secret are slowly revealed, we will finally come to understand who it was that Harrow put in the river – and most importantly, why… and we’ll be cheering for Harrow to stay free.

But will it be too late?

8:30pm Friday March 9 on ABC.