By FilmInk Staff
Streaming service Apple TV+ has just announced production on the new star-studded local crime drama The Dispatcher.
Say what you will about streaming services and their effects on everything from the local film industry to our own personal fitness, but they’ve certainly had a strong hand in creating small screen content. The latest potential audience-grabber is The Dispatcher, which is adapted from the novel by Ryan David Jahn, and will stream on Apple TV+. Directed by Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker Christian Schwochow (The Crown) and adapted by acclaimed writer and executive producer Kris Mrksa (Requiem, No Escape, White House Farm), the six-part series follows police detective Ian Hunt, whose life collapsed ten years ago when his young daughter Maggie disappeared without a trace. Now grinding out his days as a police dispatcher, Hunt is kept relatively sharp and focused solely by his unwavering belief that his daughter is still alive. When Hunt receives a distress call from a young girl he is certain is Maggie, he jumps back into action, and begins a fraught, harrowing journey to uncover the truth. Starring Maxine Peake (Words Of War, Say Nothing, Black Mirror), Brendan Cowell (Dune: Prophecy, Plum), Daniel Henshall (Mickey 17, How to Make Gravy, Snowtown), Jessica Wren (Mr. Inbetween), Zahra Newman (Thirteen Lives, Addition) and newcomer Chloe Geisker, The Dispatcher literally boils over with possibility.
