Colin From Accounts star Patrick Brammall has grabbed the lead role in Apple TV+ crime thriller The Dispatcher.

The Aussie actor will play Ian Hunt, a police detective whose 3-year-old daughter disappeared without a trace 10 years earlier. Believing she was abducted, Hunt loses his marriage and faces emotional turmoil.

But when Hunt receives a distress call from a young girl he is certain is Maggie, he will stop at nothing to find her and reunite his broken family, whatever the cost. The Dispatcher, set in Australia, is adapted by writer and executive producer Kris Mrksa from author Ryan David Jahn’s book of the same name. 

The series is executive produced by Jamie Laurenson and Hakan Kousetta at 60Forty Films, with Mrksa and Joanna Werner at Werner Film Productions executive producing. Brammall co-created, executive produced and starred in Colin From Accounts, alongside his wife, Harriet Dyer.

He currently voices Uncle Rad on the Peabody Award-winning children’s show Bluey, and Brammall also portrays Andy Bouchard on CBS’ Evil. Earlier, Brammall developed No Activity for Jungle Entertainment in Australia and later adapted it for CBS.

His other credits include the feature film Ruben Guthrie. Brammall is represented by Atlas Artists and UTA.

The Dispatcher joins an Apple TV+ lineup that includes Hijack, starring and executive produced by Idris Elba; Slow Horses, led by Oscar winner Gary Oldman; and, the recently announced Down Cemetery Road, starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson, among others.