Today, Netflix released the full-length trailer for Missing You, Harlan Coben’s next thriller starring Rosalind Eleazar in the lead role. The five-part limited series will debut on Netflix globally on January 1, 2025.
Missing You focuses on Kat Donovan (Eleazar), a detective specializing in missing persons. Eleven years ago, her fiancé Josh, the love of her life, vanished without a trace and she hasn’t heard from him since.
Now, swiping profiles on a dating app, she suddenly sees his face and her world explodes all over again. Josh’s unexpected reappearance will force her to dive back into the mystery surrounding her father’s murder and uncover long-buried secrets from her past.
The series also stars Ashley Walters, Richard Armitage, Sir Lenny Henry, Steve Pemberton, Jessica Plummer, Mary Malone, Lisa Faulkner and James Nesbitt.
Missing You follows the success of Harlan Coben’s Fool Me Once, which was named as #1 most-viewed TV show, with over 108 million views, on Netflix for the first half of 2024.
Missing You is produced by Quay Street Productions (part of ITV Studios). Harlan Coben serves as executive producer through his company, Final Twist Productions.
In keeping with previous Harlan Coben adaptations, Missing You relocates the story from the US to the UK. Filming took place in and around Manchester and the North West of England.
The executive producers also include Nicola Shindler, Richard Fee, Victoria Asare-Archer, and Danny Brocklehurst. Guy Hescott is the producer.
The directors include Nimer Rashed (Fool Me Once) and Isher Sahota (Ridley, Grace). Victoria Asare-Archer (Stay Close) is the lead writer of the series. Missing You is the latest collaboration between bestselling author Harlan Coben and Netflix. Coben continues his work with local screenwriters from around the world to bring his novels to life on screen.
With over 80 million books in print worldwide, Harlan Coben is the #1 best-selling New York Times author of 36 novels, including I Will Find You, The Match, Win, The Boy From The Woods, Run Away, Fool Me Once, The Stranger, Tell No One, Think Twice and the renowned Myron Bolitar series.
His books are published in 45 languages around the globe. Coben is the creator and executive producer of several television dramas, including Fool Me Once, Stay Close, The Stranger, Safe, Gone for Good, and The Woods. Harlan is also the founder of Final Twist Productions.
Harlan Coben’s Dead Hot, commissioned by Prime Video for UK and Eire, dropped in March 2024 and on Tubi in the US in Spring 2024 and The Red King aired on UKTV in April 2024. Coben’s Run Away has also been commissioned by Netflix, Playdate by Disney, and Lazarus by Prime Video.
Mirko Parlevliet has been reporting on the entertainment industry since 1998 and founded Vital Thrills to provide the latest news on streaming, movies, and TV shows. He previously created the websites ComingSoon, SuperHeroHype, and ShockTillYouDrop.