New ITV crime drama for Endeavour’s Shaun Evans coming soon

It is miles now virtually a yr since the last episode of ITV’s Inspector Morse prequel Endeavour.

Series 9 resulted in March remaining yr and the remaining episode used to be screened on March 12, 2023, watched by millions of viewers.

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This introduced an pause to the franchise which started with the Oxford-primarily based fully mostly Inspector Morse collection within the 1980s, in accordance with the novels of Colin Dexter.

A brand fresh crime drama starring Shaun Evans is anticipated to be confirmed within the first half of this yr on ITV. 

The actor will lead the solid of Until I Execute You alongside Line of Responsibility and Motherland neatly-known particular person Anna Maxwell Martin.

The gathering, which used to be in production beneath the working title Delia Balmer, will explore the story of Delia who survived a terminate to-deadly relationship with murderer John Sweeney.

No transmission date has but been printed.

Janice Troup, head of ITV programme publicity, drama and soaps, talked about: “We are going to hold extra news within the coming weeks as we don’t verify transmission dates this far upfront.”

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The four-phase collection will air on ITV1 and ITX and sees Anna describe the title personality and Shaun Evans play John Sweeney, who is currently serving a existence sentence for murdering his former girlfriends.

Filming locations hold integrated Swansea, exterior its ancient Guildhall.

Mr Evans talked about earlier: “I’ve beforehand worked with World Productions and ITV individually, so I’m attempting forward to joining forces to expose this story. A legend that is rather rightly in fact useful thru the victim’s lens, Delia.

“We hold got an gentle script from Cut Stevens and I might maybe no longer be extra contented to work with Anna.”

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Primarily primarily based on Delia Balmer’s book, Residing with a Serial Killer, Until I Execute You is written by Cut Stevens (The Pembrokeshire Murders), and government produced by multi-award winning World Productions CEO, Simon Heath (Assign Me, Line of Responsibility, Anne).

Until I Execute You Delia Balmer narrates the ordeal Delia suffered on the hands of John Sweeney, and her stressful bound thru the police and prison justice machine as they are trying to prosecute him for his crimes. 

Colin Dexter wrote in his will that no diversified actor might maybe also composed play Inspector Morse after Shaun Evans.

Christopher Sullivan, the author of Endeavour: The Complete Series believes the most well liked alternatives for any Endeavour sequel would feature both a collection about a younger Fred Thursday, played by Roger Allam in Endeavour, or a unusual crime drama that comprises the characters Dorothea Frazil and Max DeBryn.

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