Telemystery: Netflix Acquires Worldwide Streaming Rights to the Crime Drama Marcella

Netflix has picked up the exclusive worldwide streaming rights to Marcella, an eight-episode crime drama that has just begun airing on ITV in the UK.

Created by Hans Rosenfeldt, who also developed original Swedish/Danish co-production The Bridge (Bron), the series stars Anna Friel as Marcella Backland, who returns after a multi-year family leave to the Murder Squad of the Metropolitan Police.

She is immediately assigned to one of her old cases that she first worked on in 2003. A spate of recent killings has occurred, all carrying the same hallmarks as those unsolved murders committed over a decade ago. Has the killer re-appeared or is this a copycat murderer? How will Marcella cope with returning to duty when her own temperament is so fragile and vulnerable? Will throwing herself into her work provide the answers she's seeking or lead her dangerously into territory she must avoid at all costs?

Netflix will begin streaming Marcella on July 1st, 2016.