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

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

Capital soared to the top of the streaming service after first landing on screens nine years ago.

The three-part series was an adaptation of the novel written by John Lanchester and follows residents of a road in South London.

Each house on the street is valued at around £2million but mysterious postcards start to arrive through peoples' doors.

"We want what you have" is written on the postcards.

Toby plays wealthy banker Roger Yount who recently moved to the area.

Gemma Jones also stars as elderly widow Petunia Howe who has lived on the street since she was a newly-wed.

The series also features Adeel Akhtar, Wunmi Mosaku and Lesley Sharp.

At the time of the show's release, Toby explained why he was drawn to the role: "Roger isn’t an evil banker, he’s a slightly complacent banker.

"He’s become used to a certain way of life and has a self-imposed pressure to live that way.

"He spends a lot of money on things that other people don’t spend money on — for example fixtures and fittings — but that is normal to him and his wife.

"He is not totally in charge of his life or his work," he added.

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

"Something is shifting and changing within him, and what happens to him in the story makes him realise that his life is not all it might be," Toby explained.

"It’s a creeping dissatisfaction, a creeping sense of loss and directionlessness. He has no way of expressing that or even understanding it himself." 

The series won the best TV movie/mini series award at the Emmys in 2016.