Shaun Evans Drama 'Until I Kill You' To Debut in 2024

With Endeavour's final season closing the book on the Inspector Morse Universe in 2023, ITV quickly announced that Shaun Evans would not be gone long from the small screen. On the heels of the series' swan song in the U.K., the network announced it was greenlighting a new limited series from World Productions (the same outfit that produced hits like Vigil and Karen Pirie) based on the autobiographical memoir Living With a Serial Killer penned by Delia Balmer, who survived being in a relationship with serial killer John Sweeney, known as the "Scalp Hunter Killer." (Why do they all have nicknames like that? I have questions.)

At the time, the series was going into production under the working title of Delia Balmer, with Anna Maxwell Martin (Line of Duty) attached to star as the titular Balmer and Evans doing a full one-eighty after becoming a household name for a decade of playing the noble detective by taking on the role of Sweeney. However, since then, the project's moniker has been altered, with ITV revealing the new, updated title Until I Kill You in October at Mipcom 2023. The project was considered one of the significant attractions going into the TV festival, in which European producers usually land American distributors. However, the recent October attacks and economic worries largely overshadowed the event, and if ITV picked up a buyer, it was not announced.

Even though Until I Kill You does not have a home announced in America as yet, ITV is pushing forward with the project, listing it as part of the upcoming 2024 slate during the year-end ITV Palooza, along with the Joanne Froggatt-starrer Breathtaking, the Sophie Turner heist thriller Joan, and the dark comedy thriller project Passenger.