{"id":271289,"date":"2026-01-30T04:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/271289\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T04:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:15:17","slug":"compelling-manchester-set-spy-thriller-confirms-release-date-on-itv-and-its-so-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/271289\/","title":{"rendered":"“Compelling” Manchester-set spy thriller confirms release date on ITV \u2013 and it’s so soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

ITV has confirmed the release date for its upcoming Manchester-set thriller<\/a> Betrayal, and fans of Endeavour actor Shaun Evans only have a week and a bit to wait. The first episode will premiere on ITV1 at 9pm on Sunday, 8 February, with episode 2 airing at 9pm on the very next day.<\/p>\n

The four-part series follows Evans’ character John Hughes, an MI5 officer with a crumbling marriage who is tipped off about an informant who could help him take down a criminal gang in Stockport.<\/p>\n

However, the planned meeting soon goes nuclear as the informant is killed by an assassin, who John manages to kill before he get silenced himself.<\/p>\n

John’s superiors place him under internal investigation, and he starts to wonder if the call to silence him is coming from inside the house.<\/p>\n

Is he just paranoid, or is he really onto something? Well, the show is called Betrayal…<\/p>\n

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Evans said that he wanted the show to stand out from other spy thrillers, stating: “It\u2019s about someone having a midlife crisis. Things are no longer working for John and he\u2019s trying to find a way forward.<\/p>\n

“His relationship is falling down around his ears, and he no longer has the respect at work for his maverick qualities. His body is beginning to fail and his currency in the world is changing.<\/p>\n

“If you set that against the world of international espionage, it becomes a very interesting dual story.”<\/p>\n

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Related: Shaun Evans’ character to ‘bring villainy’ as he joins BBC’s hit Liverpool-set crime drama<\/a> <\/p>\n

As well as Evans, the show also stars Suffragette’s Romola Garai, I, Jack Wright’s Amuka-Bird, EastEnders’ Zahra Ahmadi, The Outlaws’ Gamba Cole, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’s Omid Djalili, Grantchester’s Matthew Tennyson, Unforgotten’s Hayley Tamaddon, House of the Dragon’s Anthony Flanagan, G\u2019wed’s Paddy Rowan and Out There’s Waj Ali.<\/p>\n

A Very Royal Scandal’s Julian Jarrold directed the show, while The Scandalous Lady W’s David Eldridge penned the script.<\/p>\n

Betrayal premieres on ITV1 on Sunday, 8 February at 9pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX.<\/p>\n

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Joe Anderton is a freelance news writer at Digital Spy, having worked there since 2016. In his time, he’s covered a host of live events and interviewed celebrities big and small. A big fan of TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> both mainstream and obscure, Joe also enjoys video games and in particular PlayStation. Joe currently does not use Twitter, but he only ever used it to tell people to watch the film Help! I’m a Fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ITV has confirmed the release date for its upcoming Manchester-set thriller Betrayal, and fans of Endeavour actor Shaun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[131124,1105,132805,1107,93,61,60,1135,132804,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-271289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-collection-latest-news","9":"tag-content-type-news","10":"tag-contentid-d4e0be1d-19fa-43c1-bda2-797d42458266","11":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-locale-gb","16":"tag-shorttitle-itvs-new-manchester-set-thriller-confirms-release-date","17":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}