Watch the Trailer for ‘Fool Me Once’ Creator Harlan Coben’s Next Netflix Series, ‘Missing You’

Harlan Coben (“Fool Me Once“) has a new thriller to captivate Netflix fans.

On Monday, Netflix revealed the full-length trailer for five-part limited series “Missing You,” which debuts globally on Netflix on New Year’s Day (January 1, 2025).

“Missing You” follows Kat Donovan (Rosalind Eleazar), a detective specializing in Missing Persons. For Kat, it’s not just a job. You see, 11 years ago her fiancé Josh (Ashley Walters) just up and vanished, and Kat hasn’t heard from him since. Until, that is, she sees his face on a dating app and “her world explodes all over again,” per the Netflix synopsis.

“Josh’s unexpected reappearance will force her to dive back into the mystery surrounding her father’s murder and uncover long-buried secrets from her past,” it continues.

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The series also stars Richard Armitage, Sir Lenny Henry, Steve Pemberton, Jessica Plummer, Mary Malone, Lisa Faulkner, James Nesbitt, Marc Warren, Samantha Spiro, Matt Jay-Willis, and Rudi Dharmalingam.

The limited series is produced by Quay Street Productions (part of ITV Studios). Coben is executive producer through his company, Final Twist Productions; Nicola Shindler, Richard Fee, head writer Victoria Asare-Archer, and Danny Brocklehurst also executive produce. Guy Hescott produces; Nimer Rashed and Isher Sahota direct the hourlong episodes.

“Missing You,” like previous Coben adaptations, relocates the story from the U.S. to the UK. Filming for this one took place in and around Manchester and the North West of England. Coben is also the writer behind “Tell No One,” “Safe,” and “Stay Close.”

Coben’s “Fool Me Once” was the most-viewed TV series on Netflix over the first half of 2024. Per the streamer’s biannual data dump (Netflix hates the term, but it is what it is), “Fool Me Once” drew 107.5 million views, globally, from January through June. To put that huge number into perspective, the number 2 Netflix series during the six-month period was “Bridgerton” Season 3, which had a hair under 92 million views. Number 3 was “Baby Reindeer” with 87.6 million views. A pair of big Netflix movies, “Damsel” (143.8 million views) and “Lift” (129.4 million views), did even better by that general metric.

Watch the trailer: