According to Deadline, Netflix plans to launch a new Australian supernatural series titled Playing Gracie Darling. Netflix has an agreement with Sony Television that covers the United States, Latin America, Spain, and other EMEA territories, Asia, including India, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Currently, the show is streaming on Paramount+ in the UK, Canada, and Australia.

Deadline describes the new series as a mystery drama. Fourteen-year-old Joni Gray suffers a traumatic loss when her best friend, Gracie Darling, disappears during a seance. Twenty-seven years later, children play a game — ‘Playing Gracie Darling’ — based on the mythos of the girl’s disappearance. Joni, now a child psychologist, returns to her hometown as another girl has vanished. Joni’s quest to find this new girl forces her to face the unhealed trauma surrounding Gracie’s fate.

Deadline lists actress Morgana O’Reilly (Small Town Scandal, Stories About My Body) as playing Joni Grey along with the supporting cast which includes Harriet Walter (The Mysterious Affair at Style, Brian and Maggie), Rudi Dharmalingam (Missing You, The Collaborator), Celia Pacquola (Next Tuesday, Rosehaven), Annie Maynard (Good Cop/Bad Cop, Heartbreak High)  and Anne Tenney (NCIS: Sydney, Back to teh Rafters).

Miranda Nation (Perception, Undertow) and director Jonathon Brough (RoseHaven, Better) co-wrote and co-created the series, via Deadline. Jo Porter (The Artful Dodger, High Country) and Rachel Gardner (High Country, The Stranger) are executive producers through Curio Pictures. The series was financed locally, with the bulk of the funding provided by Screen Australia via Paramount Australia. Additional funding was provided through support from the NSW Government and Screen NSW’s Made in NSW Fund.

“We couldn’t be prouder to see Playing Gracie Darling so warmly embraced by Netflix, resulting in the series reaching viewers around the world,” said Porter and Gardner in a statement via Deadline. “It speaks to the universality of the propulsive story and the richness of the characters led by the incredible Morgana O’Reilly with Dame Harriet Walter and Rudi Dharmalingam.”