Patrick Brammall plays the lead role in the Apple series “The Dispatcher”

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Patrick Brammall, co-creator and star of the successful Australian comedy Colin from Accountingexchanges laughs for an exciting thriller.

Brammall stars in a series adaptation of Ryan David Jahn’s book The dispatcher for Apple TV+. The six-part series was created by Kris Mrksa (The Murders at White House Farm).

Brammall plays police detective Ian Hunt, whose life fell apart ten years ago when his young daughter Maggie disappeared without a trace. Now a police dispatcher, the only thing keeping him going is his steadfast refusal to accept that she could be gone forever. When he receives a distress call from a young girl he’s sure is Maggie, he will stop at nothing to find her and reunite his broken family, whatever the cost.

The series is executive produced by Jamie Laurenson and Hakan Kousetta of 60Forty Films, and executive produced by Kris Mrksa and Joanna Werner of Werner Film Productions.

Published in 2011, the book is set in East Texas and describes a bullet-filled cross-country chase from Texas to California along Interstate 10 – a wild ride in a 1965 Mustang that leads through the outlaw territory of No Country for Old Men.

In addition to Colin from Accountingwhich airs in the US on Paramount+ and has been renewed for a third season, Brammall plays the lead role in Paramount+’s DevilishHe also played in Australian series No activity, which was later adapted for CBS and in which The Moodys.

He is represented in Australia by Atlas Artists, UTA, Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern and RGM Artists.