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'.

Shaun Evans is set to star in a new spy thriller for ITV – and it sounds amazing. Find out all about the Endeavour actor's new role

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