If you spent the first week of January hooked on the Netflix drama Missing You, we’ve got an update you’re going to love.
The latest collaboration between the streaming giant and mystery writer Harlan Coben centred around a woman who was stunned to discover her ex – who went missing a decade earlier – on a dating app.
Missing You followed in the pattern started with Stay Close and Fool Me Once of having a new Harlan Coben ready to stream just in time for New Year’s Day – and the latest offering pulled in hoards of viewers once again.
On Tuesday afternoon, it was announced that production was officially underway on Run Away, a brand new Coben adaption for Netflix.
While the show will feature Missing You’s James Nesbitt, it was announced he’ll be joined by British acting greats like Minnie Driver, Alfred Enoch and Ruth Jones, fresh from her scene-stealing performance in the Gavin & Stacey Christmas special last month.
The cast also includes Big Boys’ Jon Pointing, Kaos’ Joe McGann and former EastEnders cast member Tracy Ann-Oberman – but there’s also one noticeable absentee.
Yes, we’re sad to report that Richard Armitage – whose past work includes The Stranger, Stay Close and Fool Me Once, as well as another Netflix guilty pleasure, Obsession – will not be part of the Run Away cast.
“He’s a wonderful actor, a dear friend,” Coben told Tudum, insisting: “I’m sure we’ll work together again in the future.”
Filming on Run Away is due to get underway in Manchester later this month, meaning it will most likely be ready for that regular Harlan Coben New Year spot…