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

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

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, sees Evans, famous for playing Endeavour Morse, teaming up with Motherland 's Anna Maxwell Martin.

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"