Shaun Evans to Lead New ITV Series 'Betrayal'
After spending over a decade playing Endeavour Morse, a role that will almost certainly define his career, Shaun Evans has been signing onto projects where his role goes against the hero type. His most recent series, Until I Kill You, starred him playing real-life serial killer John Sweeney. Now, ITV has announced it has commissioned a new show starring Evans, an espionage thriller called Betrayal, where, at first glance, Evans is returning to play good guy law enforcement. However, a closer inspection reveals that Evans' new character is more of an anti-hero.
The project comes from Mammoth Screen, from an idea from screenwriter David Eldridge, who also wrote The Scandalous Lady W, which also co-starred Evans. Betrayal features Evans in the lead role as MI-5 operative John Hughes, who has spent the last two decades fighting the war on terror and foiling some of the most significant terrorist plots on U.K. soil. But the world has changed post-pandemic, both in the office, with new, progressive attitudes, and outside, where the national security threats exist in virtual space.
Hughes is caught up in a plot that paints him as a trigger-happy racist cop while struggling with a new female replacement he once would have thought nothing of seducing. Can Hughes convince his colleagues he's not the dinosaur he appears to be? Or will he fail to adjust to the times?
