Apple TV has unveiled first-look images for its “gripping new thriller” Last Seen, which features a starry cast including Dinnerladies and I Swear star Maxine Peake.
The series, which follows a police dispatcher (Colin From Accounts’s Patrick Brammall) who’s on a desperate hunt to find his daughter who disappeared 11 years ago, is set to premiere globally with two episodes on Wednesday 9 September 2026. A new episode will be released every Wednesday until 7 October.
Adapted from Ryan David Jahn’s book The Dispatcher, the series follows Brammall’s character Ian Ridley, whose “life fell apart 11 years ago when his young daughter Maggie disappeared without a trace,” according to the official synopsis.
It continues: “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 teenage girl he is certain is Maggie, he will stop at nothing to find her and reunite his broken family, whatever the cost.”
Alongside Peake and Brammall (The Devil Wears Prada 2), the series also stars Brendan Cowell (Dune: Prophecy), Daniel Henshall (Mickey 17) and Jessica Wren (Mr Inbetween).
The cast is rounded out by Zahra Newman (Thirteen Lives) and newcomer Chloe Jean Lourdes.
Peake has starred in a variety of TV dramas and films over the years.
As well as her role as Twinkle in BBC One sitcom Dinnerladies and a mental health nurse in recent biopic I Swear, the actress is also known appearing in the likes of Shameless, Early Doors, the two-part crime serial See No Evil: The Moors Murders and Channel 4’s Red Riding Trilogy.
Behind the camera, the series is executive produced by Jamie Laurenson and Hakan Kousetta at 60Forty Films, and Christian Schwochow (The Crown), Kris Mrksa (Requiem) and Joanna Werner (The Newsreader) at Werner Film Productions.
Last Seen will premiere globally on Apple TV on Wednesday 9 September 2026. Start your seven-day free Apple TV trial at Apple.
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