Netflix bosses 'desperate' to bring back Michelle Keegan for second series of author Harlan Coban's Fool Me Once TV drama...
but there's one problem By Charlotte Griffiths Published: 19:43 EDT, 28 September 2024 | Updated: 19:50 EDT, 28 September 2024 e-mail View comments It is one of the runaway TV hits of the year – and Netflix is desperate to bring it back. But the US giant faces a tricky problem as it seeks a second series of Fool Me Once – they killed off its star attraction Michelle Keegan at the crime thriller's climax. An insider says writer Harlan Coben wishes he had written a more ambiguous ending and has quipped that he wants to compose a 'Harold from Neighbours' moment for Ms Keegan so he can bring back the former Coronation Street actress.
She catapulted to wider fame on the back of the drama . Like Dallas's Bobby Ewing coming back from the dead in the shower in the Eighties, Harold Bishop rose from a watery grave in the Australian soap opera in the Nineties. Five years after he was feared lost at sea, it transpired he had in fact been saved by a passing trawler and taken to Tasmania .
Conveniently, he had suffered amnesia, and so hadn't bothered to tell anyone. Netflix is desperate to bring it back this year's hit drama Fool Me Once with its main character Maya Stern (right), played by Michelle Keegan But the US giant faces a tricky problem as it killed off its star attraction Michelle at the crime thriller's climax An insider says writer Harlan Coben wishes.