Overview
- Netflix formally announced an untitled four-episode detective thriller from Charlie Brooker that is now in production.
- The official logline follows a tormented detective from the Northern city of Bleakford who heads to London to stop a ritualistic serial killer, with the teaser warning, "Contains blood and frowning."
- Paddy Considine, Lena Headey and Georgina Campbell lead the cast, with Campbell returning to work with Brooker after Black Mirror's "Hang the DJ."
- Brooker created the series and wrote it with Ben Caudell, Jason Hazeley, Emer Kenny, Daniel Maier and Joel Morris, with additional material by Victoria Asare Archer; Al Campbell directs, Richard Webb produces and executive producers are Brooker, Jessica Rhoades and Annabel Jones, with Mark Kinsella as co-executive producer.
- A release date has not been set, and Netflix is producing the series directly, underscoring Brooker’s continued work with the streamer following his and Annabel Jones’s exit from Broke & Bones.