The Boy That Never Was is an Irish television drama series directed by Hannah Quinn and starring Colin Morgan and Toni O'Rourke.
A man becomes convinced that he has seen his son on the streets of Dublin, three years after he was supposedly killed in a North African earthquake.
It is produced by Subotica, who oversaw the adaptation by Jo Spain and David Logan of the Karen Perry novel of the same name.
Executive producers on the series included Aoife O’Sullivan and Tristan Orpen Lynch for Subotica, with David Crean and Dermot Horan for RTÉ and Andrew Byrne for Screen Ireland.
[2] The cast includes Colin Morgan, Toni O’Rourke, Kerr Logan and Simon Callow.