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

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

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".

ITV has commissioned a new espionage thriller which will be set in the clandestine world of MI5 and star Endeavor, Until I Kill You and Vigil star Shaun Evans. The new drama, Betrayal, will see Shaun's character,

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"