Netflix has greenlit a new British drama from 'The Gold' showrunner Neil Forsyth, based on a stunning true story about a pair of customs officers who went undercover to infiltrate some of Britain's most dangerous drug gangs.

The six-part series, titled “Legends,” follows a thrilling criminal investigation based on Forsyth’s extensive research and interviews with those involved.

“In the early 1990s, at the height of the international war on drugs, the government agency responsible for Britain’s borders, Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise, realised they were losing the battle against drug smuggling. Their solution was extraordinary,” the logline reads. “In a top-secret operation, a small team of British Customs officers were sent undercover. Their job: to infiltrate Britain’s most dangerous drugs gangs.”

“They weren’t trained spies, they had no undercover experience. These were ordinary men and women, plucked from ordinary lives in the UK, who had undergone a basic training regime and then been told to create new identities in the criminal underworld. These identities were called Legends.