New Aussie thriller The Dispatcher for Apple TV+

Apple TV+ has announced a new six-episode thriller The Dispatcher -its second drama series to be filmed in Australia following Shantaram.

Patrick Brammall (Colin from Accounts, Glitch) takes the lead role in the series adapted by Kris Mrksa (Requiem, No Escape, White House Farm) from Ryan David Jahn’s US book of the same name.

Police detective Ian Hunt’s life fell apart 10 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.

The series is executive produced by Jamie Laurenson and Hakan Kousetta at 60Forty Films, with executive producers Mrksa and Joanna Werner at Werner Film Productions.