Jed Mercurio’s HTM Tv’s is engaged on Payback, a six-part crime drama for the UK’s ITV and Britbox Worldwide. Morven Christie, Peter Mullan and Prasanna Puwanarajah are main the solid, and screenwriter Debbie O’Malley is writing.
Billed as a “compelling character-led sequence,” Payback will follows Lexie Noble, (Christie; The Bay, The A Phrase, Ordeal by Innocence), as she turns into entangled in a deadly police operation to topple a infamous crime lord, Cal Morris (Peter Mullan; The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy, The Underground Railroad, Ozark). Puwanarajah and Derek Riddell play monetary investigators wanting into Lexie’s husband Jared, who has been laundering Cal’s unlawful earnings behind her again.
HTM Tv Inventive Director Jed Mercurio (Line of Responsibility, Bodyguard) is working alongside Hill, his HTM accomplice Madonna Baptiste (DI Ray, Stephen, Black Mirror) and Diederick Santer on behalf of BritBox Worldwide on the sequence. Mercurio will govt produce the sequence, alongside Baptiste, O’Malley and Santer. Jennie Darnell (Set off Level, Line of Responsibility, Holby Metropolis) and Andrew Cumming (Clique, The Origin, Chilly Toes) are the administrators and Eric Coulter (The Management Room, Shetland, Bodyguard) is producing.
ITV Head of Drama Polly Hill stated: “Payback is an excellent thriller which questions how properly you realize your accomplice and because the secrets and techniques come out, asks who you’ll be able to belief. Debbie has written compelling scripts that can hold the viewers hooked and stunned. I’m delighted to be working with Morven Christie once more, and naturally Jed Mercurio and Madonna Baptiste at HTM Tv.”
Author O’Malley has written for Name the Midwife, People and Harlots, and her three-part sequence The Responsible aired on ITV in 2013.
“Working with Debbie has been a pleasure, and everybody at HTM is proud to carry her thrillingly propulsive crime sequence to display,” stated Mercurio and Baptiste in a press release. “We’re very excited to announce a stellar line up of appearing expertise and happy to be working with immensely gifted administrators and manufacturing staff.”
Following our extraordinary spouse and mom by way of the loopholes and more and more gray areas of fiscal malpractice, into the murky world of organised crime, Payback poses the disconcerting query: simply how far would possibly any of us go, if we thought we may get away with it?”
BritBox Worldwide will co-produce the sequence and be the unique house to the sequence within the U.S., Canada, Australia, South Africa, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway. The BritBox deal was negotiated by Hat Trick Worldwide, which represents the present globally and whose mum or dad, Hat Trick Productions, a a three way partnership accomplice in HTM.
