ITV Finally Releases Trailer for Shaun Evans Thriller 'Until I Kill You'
It is never easy to know what to do with a major TV star when the breakout series they starred in is over, especially when that series ran for an entire decade. Not every actor manages to transition to other roles; Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke, for example, is still floundering, attaching herself to flop after flop, while her co-star, Kit Harington, only just found his footing with Industry Season 3 after flirting with returning to the role of Jon Snow for lack of being able to land a role in anything else. The same is happening to Shaun Evans, whose ten years as Morse on Endeavour are proving hard to shake, as his follow-up, Until I Kill You, has been stuck in a cycle of delays.
In defense of programmers, Until I Kill You feels like a Walter Presents title, a slightly stiff, literal translation of a title that reads much better in the original language, or maybe one of those godawful movies of the week that used to fill the hours on Lifetime. The series' original title was Delia Balmer, named for the lead character played by Anna Maxwell Martin (A Spy Among Friends), the real-life survivor of serial killer John Sweeney (Evans), whose testimony put him away for the rest of his life. That was suitable for U.K. viewers, who would recognize the name, but failed at broader appeal.
Moreover, the series itself is a bit of a hard sell, as Evans' decision to take the role of real-life Sweeney is a classic "casting against type" move most actors aim for after playing the same role for years on end, despite audiences not wanting to see their favorite hero as a serial killer, no matter how much he's itching to play one. However, Evans has already moved on from Until I Kill You, announcing he'll star next as an MI-5 anti-hero in Betrayal, also commissioned for ITV. But Until I Kill You was slated to air before the end of 2024, and ITV is keeping that promise, dropping the official trailer that assures those who want to see it that the show is forthcoming before year's end.
