The first trailer for Suranne Jones and Jodie Whittaker’s “thrilling” new ITV series Frauds has launched.
The upcoming heist drama sees the pair play two conwomen who enjoy a “toxic but darkly funny friendship” as they team up to “pull off the art heist of the century”.
In the brief teaser released today, we meet Bert (Jones) as she’s released from prison on compassionate grounds amid a terminal diagnosis, and pleads with her old partner Sam (Whittaker) to do “one last job”.
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“We are going to steal a painting from the biggest gallery in Spain,” Bert declares, before they assemble a team to help carry out the heist. However, the clip teases potential double crossing and deception among their ranks.
As Bert humorously tells a chicken at the end: “Trust nobody, kid.”
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“Whilst the team must overcome numerous challenges before they can pull off the heist, it’s the power struggle between Bert and Sam that threatens to derail their plans and destroy them both,” the synopsis reads.
“Set against the epic rolling hills of southern Spain and the dark criminal underbelly that casts a shadow over the glistening coast, Frauds is a complex and addictive story of friendship, deception and survival.”
The series has been co-created by Jones and Hullraisers’ Anne-Marie O’Connor, with Horacio Colomé, Christian Cooke, Talisa Garcia, Elizabeth Berrington and Lee Boardman also among the cast.
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“Working on Frauds with Anne-Marie [O’Connor] and Monumental for the last two years has been a wild ride,” Jones previously said.
“We took the idea of toxic female friendship and turned it on its head to give the heist genre an emotional heartbeat. I have always wanted to work with Jodie, and now I am. I hope you love Bert and Sam and all they get up to as much as we do.”
Frauds will premiere on ITV1 and ITVX this autumn.
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