'Frauds' Adds 9 to Cast, Including PBS Favorites

ITV first announced it was greenlighting Frauds for the upcoming 2025/2026 television season back in January. The six-part miniseries hails from TeamAkers, Suranne Jones' production company, whose inaugural series, MaryLand, aired on PBS stations in 2024. Like the company's first series, Jones headlines the project alongside another A-list co-star, in case Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who). The two were announced as confirmed for the series with the commission, with further details promised to come. Now, with a cast of nine added to the roster and details about who they play, the series is coming into better focus.

Jones and Whittaker play a pair called a "complex duo," Bert and Sam. The two (who it seemed to suggest were a couple) ran cons for a living until they were caught. One went to jail, the other did not. Now that both are free again, they've reconnected in Southern Spain after ten years apart. 

The group of characters surrounding them also sounds like a good time, starting with Talisa García (Baptiste) as Miss Take, who hosts drag bingo at the club on the Costa del Sol; Karan Gill (COBRA) as Bilal, the world’s greatest forger; and Elizabeth Berrington (Sanditon) as Jackie Diamond, magician’s assistant/wife of The Great Diavolo who is the brains behind the act. How these guys fit into the heist, which Sam and Bert wind up in the middle of, remains to be seen, but it sounds like a lot of fun.

Here's the series' synopsis:

Frauds is led by the complex duo, Bert and Sam, whose intertwined past resurfaces in the setting of Southern Spain after a decade of separation.

As Sam has sought a low-key life, Bert’s release from a Spanish prison for compassionate reasons reignites her ambition for one final, significant score. On the pretext of one final, multi-million-pound art heist, Bert attempts to lure Sam out of retirement, but at what cost?  Can Sam stay one step ahead of her former friend, who is clearly capable of treachery? Or will the push and pull of their toxic friendship see them both ruined before they are able to pull off the job?

Jones, Whittaker, García, Berrington, and Gill are not the only PBS favorites in the cast, either. The ensemble series also features Kate Fleetwood (Victoria), Lee Boardman (Enola Holmes), Christian Cooke (That Dirty Black Bag), and Abdul Salis (The Wheel of Time). Supporting cast includes Javier Taboada (Velvet) and newcomer Thais Martin. 

Writer Anne-Marie O’Connor (MaryLand) penned all episodes; director Giulia Gandini (Shetland) helms the series with Pat Tookey-Dickson producing. Jones, O’Connor, and Tookey-Dickson all executive produce alongside Debra Hayward, Alison Carpenter, Jill Forbes, Alison Owen & Katie Kelly for Monumental Television, part of ITV Studios.  

Frauds is set to premiere on ITV before the end of 2025. Thus far, it still has no American distributor, but considering the cast and the production team, there's a good chance it will end up on either PBS or BritBox.