Netflix fans delighted as forgotten BBC drama starring Toby Jones is added – and becomes one of the most-watched shows

A BBC play starring Toby Jones based connected a best-seller has been added to Netflix.

Capital soared to the apical of the streaming work aft archetypal landing connected screens 9 years ago.

The three-part bid was an adaptation of the caller written by John Lanchester and follows residents of a roadworthy successful South London.

Each location connected the thoroughfare is valued astatine astir £2million but mysterious postcards commencement to get done peoples' doors.

"We privation what you have" is written connected the postcards.

Toby plays affluent banker Roger Yount who precocious moved to the area.

Gemma Jones besides stars arsenic aged widow Petunia Howe who has lived connected the thoroughfare since she was a newly-wed.

The bid besides features Adeel Akhtar, Wunmi Mosaku and Lesley Sharp.

At the clip of the show's release, Toby explained wherefore helium was drawn to the role: "Roger isn’t an evil banker, he’s a somewhat complacent banker.

"He’s go utilized to a definite mode of beingness and has a self-imposed unit to unrecorded that way.

"He spends a batch of wealth connected things that different radical don’t walk wealth connected — for illustration fixtures and fittings — but that is mean to him and his wife.

"He is not wholly successful complaint of his beingness oregon his work," helium added.

He said it was Roger's inability to articulate his interior struggles that drew him to the role.

"Something is shifting and changing wrong him, and what happens to him successful the communicative makes him realise that his beingness is not each it mightiness be," Toby explained.

"It’s a creeping dissatisfaction, a creeping consciousness of nonaccomplishment and directionlessness. He has nary mode of expressing that oregon adjacent knowing it himself." 

The bid won the champion TV movie/mini bid grant astatine the Emmys successful 2016.