Channel 5's new four-part thriller Missed Call begins tonight (Monday, 13 April) at 9pm, starring Joanna Scanlan (Slow Horses) and Robert Lindsay (Sherwood). The series, described as a 'compelling new' drama, follows a single mother whose teenage daughter vanishes during a school exchange in France.
Scanlan plays Sarah, whose world is upended when she receives a late-night missed call from her daughter Katie. Rushing to the picturesque French village where Katie was staying, Sarah finds the host family and local authorities disturbingly indifferent to her disappearance. Her search becomes a gripping and dangerous race against time.
The cast also includes Rupert Graves (Sherlock), Claire Keim, and François-Xavier Demaison. The series was created by Samuel Kissous and Matthew Thomas, with Thomas co-writing the script alongside Sally Abbott (Vera, Call the Midwife) and Paul Matthew Thompson (Ridley, Shakespeare and Hathaway).
Scanlan said: 'It's a powerful story about every mother's worst fear, set in a place that's stunningly beautiful but weirdly unsettling. Sarah is a complex, vibrant and determined woman, and I'm hugely excited to bring her to life in this tense and emotional thriller.'
Paul Testar, Commissioning Editor for Channel 5, called it 'an emotionally charged thriller that brings together a phenomenal international cast and a compelling story of maternal determination and cultural clash'. Episodes air nightly until the finale on Thursday.
