The Tourist

Created by brothers Chris and Jack Williams (Fleabag producers), The Tourist launched on BBC One on New Year's Day 2022 and went on to become the most-watched drama on the channel that year. Produced in co-production with the Australian Seven Network and shot on location across South Australia, the series marks a significant moment in BBC One's turn towards high-concept thriller storytelling designed to travel internationally.

Jamie Dornan plays a man with no name and no memory who wakes in the Outback after a near-fatal road collision. The series pairs him with Danielle Macdonald as Helen Chambers, a probationary constable whose tenacity compensates for her inexperience, and Shalom Brune-Franklin as Luci, a waitress with her own complicated relationship to the man's vanished history. The writers build an architecture of sharp reversals and dark comedy atop the central amnesia hook, and directors Chris Sweeney and Daniel Nettheim sustain a tone that keeps violence and absurdist wit in uneasy balance.

The Tourist earned four wins and sixteen nominations across international awards cycles, including a BAFTA TV Craft nomination for cinematography. A second series, set in Ireland and expanding the mythology established in season one, aired on BBC One in January 2024, confirming the format's durability. The series demonstrated that British co-production with an international partner could yield something with genuine personality rather than merely a wider geography.