Last Seen First Look Featuring Patrick Brammall
Apple TV has revealed a first look at the new six-episode Australian thriller Last Seen (formerly known as “The Dispatcher”), starring Gotham Award winner Patrick Brammall, and adapted by acclaimed writer and executive producer Kris Mrksa from CWA John Creasey Dagger Award-winning author Ryan David Jahn’s book The Dispatcher.
Last Seen, set and filmed in Victoria, Australia, is directed and executive produced by Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker Christian Schwochow and will make its global debut on Wednesday, September 9, with two episodes, followed by a new episode every Wednesday until October 7, 2026.
Police detective Ian Ridley’s (Brammall) life fell apart 11 years ago when his young daughter Maggie disappeared without a trace. Now working as a police dispatcher, he has only his implacable refusal to accept that she might be gone forever to keep him going.
When he receives a distress call from a teenage girl, whom he is certain is Maggie, he will stop at nothing to find her and reunite his broken family, whatever the cost.
In addition to Brammall (The Devil Wears Prada 2, Colin from Accounts, Evil), the series also stars Maxine Peake (Say Nothing, Black Mirror), Brendan Cowell (Dune: Prophecy, Plum), Daniel Henshall (Mickey 17, How to Make Gravy), Jessica Wren (Mr. Inbetween, Return to Devil’s Playground), Zahra Newman (Thirteen Lives, Addition), and newcomer Chloe Jean Lourdes.
The series is executive produced by Jamie Laurenson and Hakan Kousetta at 60Forty Films (Hijack, Slow Horses, Down Cemetery Road), with executive producers Schwochow (The Crown, Bad Banks, Munich: The Edge of War), Mrksa (Requiem, No Escape, White House Farm), and Joanna Werner (The Newsreader, Riot, Clickbait) at Werner Film Productions.
Last Seen joins a slate of acclaimed, thrilling dramas on Apple TV, including the high-octane hit Hijack, starring and executive-produced by SAG and Golden Globe Award winner Idris Elba; and beloved, multi-BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning Slow Horses, led by Academy Award winner Gary Oldman.
There’s also the recently renewed, BAFTA Award-nominated Down Cemetery Road, starring Academy Award winner Emma Thompson and Golden Globe Award winner Ruth Wilson, among many others.
