EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has greenlit one other two diversifications of Harlan Coben novels after Idiot Me As soon as turned a world hit for the streaming service, Deadline can reveal.

Netflix will carry Lacking You and Run Away to the display as restricted sequence over the approaching years, with the previous going into manufacturing in spring 2024.

Quay Avenue Productions, the ITV Studios-backed manufacturing outfit based by Nicola Shindler, will produce each diversifications after overseeing Idiot Me As soon as. Coben will function govt producer via his firm Remaining Twist Productions.

Victoria Asare-Archer, who tailored Coben’s Keep Shut for Netflix in 2021, will write Lacking You. Idiot Me As soon as author Danny Brocklehurst will pen Run Away.

The dramas would be the ninth and tenth Coben diversifications produced below Netflix’s fruitful partnership with the creator, who has bought greater than 80M books worldwide.

Lacking You tells the story of detective Kat Donovan stumbling throughout her estranged fiancé on a relationship app, forcing her to delve again into the thriller surrounding her father’s homicide.

The sequence will likely be directed by Sean Spencer, with Isher Sahota serving as second director. Govt producers are Coben, Shindler, Richard Price, Asare-Archer, and Brocklehurst. Man Hescott is the producer.

Run Away facilities on Simon, whose good life is shattered when his oldest daughter, Paige, runs away and is discovered weak and strung out on medicine in a metropolis park. Simon’s search takes him right into a harmful underworld, the place a surprising act of violence additional rocks his life.

Run Away will likely be govt produced by Coben, Shindler, Price, and Brocklehurst.

Idiot Me As soon as premiered on January 1 and featured Michelle Keegan’s Maya Stern struggling to come back to phrases with the homicide of her husband and sister.

The sequence amassed 61M views in its first two weeks, topping Netflix’s international prime 10 English language TV reveals. Within the UK, the present has been a giant hit, with the primary episode being watched by 6.3M viewers, in line with British TV rankings physique Barb.

Idiot Me As soon as additionally starred Joanna Lumley, Richard Armitage, and Adeel Akhtar.