Studiocanal, ITV and Netflix to co-produce Paranoid

Studiocanal executive Rola Bauer within her recently announced US co-production mandate, worked with Red Production Company and Netflix to put this co-production together. The French company will provide all studio services including the worldwide post Netflix sales, overseen by Katrina Neylon, EVP Sales & Marketing.
 
Paranoid is produced by Tom Sherry (Prey, Ordinary Lies, Scott & Bailey) and executive produced by Red founder Nicola Shindler (Happy Valley, The Five, Last Tango in Halifax), and writer and creator Bill Gallagher. For ITV, the series has been commissioned by Controller of Drama, Victoria Fea.
 
Set in the small fictional town of Woodmere, detectives Michael Niles (Neil Stuke), Nina Suresh (Indira Varma), Alec Wayfield (Dino Fetscher) and Bobby Day (Robert Glenister) begin to piece together what happened on the fateful morning Doctor Angela Benton took her three-year-old son Luke to the playground.
 
Watching Luke play alongside other Mums and their toddlers, Angela is set upon and brutally stabbed by a man whose face is covered from view. His bizarre and disturbing behaviou is noticed moments before the attack by eyewitness Lucy Cannonbury (Lesley Sharp). Lucy’s version of events instantly rings alarm bells with dedicated and compassionate cop Nina Suresh, but fellow seasoned detective Bobby Day is more willing to accept Lucy’s account of Angela’s tragic murder.  
 
As the investigation deepens – and darkens – detectives realize they are in a mammoth battle with a formidable global foe whose dark dealings  reach into every corner of the world. Shot through with humour and humanity, it’s a David and Goliath story that sees the story’s heroes taking on their own personal demons before they can do battle with the real enemy.