Leaving Morse far behind, Shaun Evans new series will see him as an out of favour intelligence officer in Betrayal.

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

Endeavour's Shaun Evans is returning to ITV for a new espionage thriller. Betrayal stars the Vigil actor as John Hughes, a long-serving MI5 agent who first joined the service during the 'war on terror'. The series is set in London and Manchester, and filming will begin next year.

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".

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