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Witch Hunt is headed to Netflix. The streaming service has ordered the crime drama starring Sarah Lancashire. She was last seen in another Netflix crime drama, Black Doves.

Deadline revealed the following about the plot of the series:

“In Witch Hunt, Lancashire plays August Howell, a descendent of the ‘Witch of Cambridge’. Released after 30 years in prison for drowning her three young daughters, she comes home to a community that does not want her back. But when concern grows that her return has triggered a modern day witch hunt in the university town, the police must turn to August’s last surviving daughter, Professor Wren Howell, to help find the killer.”

Lancashire called the series “a brilliantly imagined and utterly compelling story, with a deeply complex character at its heart.”

The series announcement is below. Netflix will announce a premiere date later.

Sarah Lancashire will star in new Netflix series WITCH HUNT, from creator Abi Morgan.

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What do you think? Do you plan to watch this new Netflix series?