High Five: Harlan Coben on his first original TV show
Prolific author Harlan Coben says he’s ‘shooting for greatness’ with The Five, his first original TV series. DQ talks to the novelist and others behind the production and finds out why they’re convinced they’ve got their hands on a five-star hit. A group of friends are haunted by the disappearance of a young child years earlier while he was in their care. Now they are forced to revisit their past when the missing boy’s DNA turns up at the scene of a murder. If you thought this sounded like the gripping plot to the next story by author Harlan Coben, you would be right. Only this isn’t a book that’s heading straight to the top of the New York Times Best Seller list. Instead, it’s the chilling set-up to The Five (pictured above), the novelist’s first original story for television. The 10-part series stars Tom Cullen, O-T Fagbenle, Lee Ingleby and Sarah Solemani as four friends who are forced to confront their past when a terrible childhood tragedy comes back to haunt them. Produced by Red Production Company and distributed by StudioCanal, it is due to air on Sky1 in the UK in early 2016. Mystery writer Coben has penned more than 25 novels, with more than 60 million copies in print worldwide. His books have been translated into 43 languages. But 25 years since his first book, Play Dead, was published in 1990, he has now written for television for the first time. Coben says he was first approached … Continue reading High Five: Harlan Coben on his first original TV show
