A phone call meant for a dispatch log turns into an obsession in Last Seen, the Australian-British crime drama joining K-Time in 2026. Christian Schwochow directs this mystery about a father who cannot let a case go cold.
What is Last Seen about?
Ian Ridley works the night shift as an emergency dispatcher, fielding calls that rarely resolve into anything more than a report number. Then a teenage caller reaches him sounding frightened, familiar, and impossible to trace — close enough to his long-missing daughter that he cannot file the call away and move on. What follows pulls Ridley outside the boundaries of his job, chasing a voice through fragments of information most callers never leave behind, while the people around him weigh whether he is finally close to an answer or chasing a resemblance that isn't there.
About the cast
Patrick Brammall carries the series as Ridley, playing a man whose professional calm keeps slipping under personal stakes he can't set aside. Brendan Cowell, Maxine Peake and Daniel Henshall fill out the ensemble around him, with Zahra Newman, Jessica Wren, Chloe Jean Lourdes and Tobias Muhafidin rounding out a cast spread across the production's Australian and British halves. Together they build a world of dispatchers, detectives and family members all reading the same thin evidence differently.
Context & significance
Last Seen is a co-production between Australia and the United Kingdom, a pairing that shows up in its dual settings and mixed accents rather than in any single national voice. Christian Schwochow, whose background is in tense character-driven drama, directs the series with an emphasis on procedure — the mechanics of dispatch calls, trace requests and cold-case files — rather than on spectacle, keeping the mystery grounded in how an actual missing-persons search would unfold.
Watching Last Seen on Ktime
Last Seen streams on K-Time with a free account login, no separate purchase required to start watching. The series is available with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow Ridley's search either way, on an interface built around a Farsi-first viewing experience for the Iranian diaspora audience.