EXCLUSIVE: ITV has greenlit an espionage thriller starring and produced by Vigil’s Shaun Evans from Mammoth Screen.

Shaun Evans is set to star in a new ITV drama, Betrayal, which will see him play a spy who is trying to avert a "serious and dark threat to national security"

Shaun Evans has been cast in a new ITV drama as a troubled MI5 agent, who is struggling to avert a serious and dark threat to national security while making sense of his own place in the world

Shaun Evans, famed for his roles in Endeavour, Vigil and Until I Kill You, has landed the lead role in ITV's upcoming thriller, Betrayal. In the series, he will portray John Hughes, a spy who grapples with averting "a serious and dark threat to national security while making sense of his own place in the world".

Here's a first look (above) at Endeavour star Shaun Evans playing a serial killer in the upcoming ITV true crime drama Until I Kill You. The four-parter, which promises to be one of the best ITV dramas of the year,

Endeavour's Shaun Evans will appear in the lead role of a new ITV espionage thriller titled Betrayal, with filming starting next year.