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2025

ITV Releases New Images from Thriller Red Eye

ITV’s propulsive thriller Red Eye takes flight again on New Year’s Day with Jing Lusi reprising her role as DS Hana Li for a new investigation alongside guest star, Martin Compston. Joining Jing and Martin in the highly pressurised, rollercoaster world of Red Eye, are Lesley Sharp and Jemma Moore...


25th November 2025
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The Ridge Cast on the New Psychological Thriller

New six-part psychological thriller, The Ridge stars BAFTA Scotland award-winning Scots actress Lauren Lyle and New Zealand star Jay Ryan. Running from the secrets in her past, Scottish anaesthetist Mia Beaton (Lyle) thinks she’s going to New Zealand to attend her sister Cassy’s wedding to fiancé Ewan (Ryan). On arrival...


14th October 2025
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First Look at Upcoming Thriller Coldwater

ITV has revealed a selection of first-look images from the upcoming six-part thriller Coldwater, starring Andrew Lincoln and produced by SISTER (Black Doves, Eric, Chernobyl) for airing and streaming on ITV1, ITVX, STV and STV Player this autumn. The series is written, created and executive produced by David Ireland (The Lovers, Ulster...


6th August 2025
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Prime Video to launch Thriller Series, Vanished

Prime Video has confirmed the start of production on Vanished in Marseille, France, with the four-part series set to launch on Prime Video in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand next year. The series stars Kaley Cuoco (The Flight Attendant, The Big Bang Theory), Sam Claflin (Peaky Blinders, Me Before You), Karin Viard (Polisse, The Bélier Family), Matthias...


22nd May 2025
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Apple TV+ Announces New Thriller The Wanted Man

Today, Apple TV+ announced the riveting new eight-episode drama “The Wanted Man,” starring SAG and Golden Globe Award winner Hugh Laurie (“House,” “The Night Manager”). From creator, writer and showrunner George Kay (“Hijack,” “Lupin”), the series is co-produced by New Pictures (“The Long Shadow,” “Catherine the Great”) and Kay’s Observatory...


7th May 2025
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Flirty Spy Thriller Honey

The BBC and ZDF have commissioned Honey – a tender and flirty, slick and dangerous darkly comedic Cold War thriller from Sid Gentle Films Ltd (Killing Eve, Extraordinary). Written by Emma Moran (Extraordinary) the series goes deep undercover in 1980s East Berlin to explore a shadowy world of counter espionage...


25th March 2025
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Trailer and Poster for Psychological Thriller Fear

LONDON, UK—10 February 2025— Prime Video today released the official trailer, key art, and new images for the exciting three-part psychological thriller series, Fear, about a family pushed to their absolute limits. The new original series will premiere all episodes exclusively on Prime Video in the UK and Ireland on 4th March...


10th February 2025
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Virdee – How the Crime Thriller is Brought to Life

Set and filmed in Bradford, Virdee tells the story of Detective Harry Virdee, a dedicated cop whose personal life is in chaos. He is in a loving relationship with his wife, Saima, but he is estranged from his family who disapprove of his interfaith marriage. A turf war is brewing...


3rd February 2025
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Out There: New ITV Thriller

MARTIN CLUNES STARS IN NEW ITV THRILLER CREATED BY MARC EVANS AND WRITTEN BY ED WHITMORE, PRODUCED BY BUFFALO PICTURES in association with CREATIVE WALES County lines drug dealing and its escalating, insidious crime wave sweeping the British countryside is the subject of new six-part ITV and ITVX drama, Out...


9th January 2025
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2024

Channel 5 Commissions Brand New Thriller ‘The Rumour’

London, Wednesday 4th December: Channel 5 has today announced it has greenlit brand-new thriller The Rumour (5×60’), a co-production from Cuba Pictures and Clapperboard in association with Fremantle, who will distribute the series internationally.  y text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since...


4th December 2024
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New Sky Original Thriller `Inheritance`

Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Surface, Loki), Jonny Lee Miller (Covenant, The Crown), Sheldon Shepherd (Better Must Come, Bob Marley: One Love), and Bel Powley (A Small Light, The Morning Show) will star in a provocative new Sky Original thriller Inheritance from acclaimed writer and actor Karla Crome (Am I Being Unreasonable, Carnival Row). Set in...


4th December 2024
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ITV Recommissions Mystery Thriller, After The Flood

ITV commissions second series of hit drama, produced by Nicola Shindler’s Quay Street Productions and written by acclaimed screenwriter Mick Ford with BritBox International as co-production partners Sophie Rundle, Philip Glenister, Lorraine Ashbourne, Nicholas Gleaves and Matt Stokoe will reprise their roles in series 2 ITV’s Director of Drama, Polly...


15th November 2024
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Channel 5 Commission Thriller Catch You Later

London, Monday 14th October 2024: Channel 5 has announced today they have greenlit brand-new thriller Catch You Later w.t (4×60’) from Clapperboard, in association with Sphere Abacus who will distribute the series internationally. Casting has also been revealed with BAFTA-winning Jason Watkins (Coma, The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, W1A)...


14th October 2024
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Espionage thriller Betrayal commissioned by ITV

ITV has commissioned espionage thriller Betrayal, set in the clandestine world of MI5 and starring Shaun Evans as a spy trying to avert a serious and dark threat to national security while making sense of his own place in the world. John Hughes, played by Shaun Evans (Until I Kill...


19th September 2024
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Premiere Date for New Thriller Series, Cross

Today, Prime Video announced the premiere date and revealed the key art for the long-awaited new crime thriller series, CROSS starring Aldis Hodge as Alex Cross. All eight episodes will premiere worldwide in more than 240 countries and territories on November 14 exclusively on Prime Video. From Paramount Television Studios and Skydance...


8th July 2024
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BBC Acquires French Thriller Sambre – Anatomy of a Crime

The BBC has acquired Sambre – Anatomy of a Crime, a French crime thriller based on true events, for BBC iPlayer and TV channels, from Federation Studios. Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind docuseries The Staircase and the drama Laetitia, recounts the extraordinary legal case of a serial rapist...


5th July 2024
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BBC announces cast for new revenge thriller Reunion

The BBC have announced that Matthew Gurney, Lara Peake, Anne-Marie Duff, Eddie Marsan and Rose Ayling- Ellis will star in upcoming thriller Reunion, made by Warp Films for BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The four-part series has started filming in and around Sheffield this week. Written by Sheffield-born deaf writer...


16th May 2024
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New Sky Thriller ‘Iris’ from Neil Cross

Niamh Algar (Mary & George, The Virtues) and Tom Hollander (The White Lotus, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans) are to star in a new Sky Original thriller Iris, written and created by Neil Cross, the mastermind behind the acclaimed Golden Globe Award-winning series Luther. The lead director is Terry McDonough (Breaking Bad, Better...


2nd May 2024
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Casting Announced for New Crime Thriller Virdee

The BBC has announced casting on Virdee, the new crime thriller based on AA Dhand’s much-loved novels, now filming in Bradford. The six-part series is adapted for the screen by AA Dhand and is produced by Magical Society for BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Staz Nair (Rebel Moon, Game of...


29th February 2024
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New Channel 5 Thriller The Wives

LONDON, Wednesday 28th February 2024: Channel 5 today announce Jo Joyner, Angela Griffin, and Tamzin Outhwaite to lead cast in new drama, The Wives (6×60’), a domestic thriller produced by Gaumont, in association with Banijay Rights for international distribution. The Wives is a six-part mystery drama that follows the unravelling of one family in a summer that changes all their lives. Last...


28th February 2024
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2023

ITV commissions psychological thriller, Playing Nice

ITV commissions psychological thriller, Playing Nice, starring James Norton, Niamh Algar, James McArdle and Jessica Brown Findlay. Adapted by Grace Ofori-Attah, produced by Rabbit Track Pictures and STUDIOCANAL ITV’s Head of Drama Polly Hill has commissioned four-part psychological thriller, Playing Nice adapted by Malpractice writer Grace Ofori-Attah from the best-selling...


21st November 2023
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Further Casting Announced for BBC Thriller The Jetty

Further casting has been announced for new BBC crime thriller The Jetty starring Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who, The Cry, The Serpent), from writer Cat Jones and producers Firebird Pictures, for BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Jenna Coleman is joined across the series by Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone, Morbius, Gold...


7th November 2023
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ITV Commissions Thriller, Protection

ITV commissions thriller, Protection, starring Siobhan Finneran, Nadine Marshall and Katherine Kelly, from multi award winning producers, New Pictures and written by acclaimed screenwriter Kris Mrksa ITV’s Head of Drama Polly Hill has commissioned compelling thriller, Protection, created and written by acclaimed screenwriter Kris Mrksa and produced by multi award winning...


27th September 2023
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ITV and ITVX commissions thriller, Out There

ITV and ITVX commissions thriller, Out There, starring Martin Clunes and Louis Ashbourne Serkis, written by Ed Whitmore and Marc Evans, produced by Buffalo Pictures County lines drug dealing and an escalating, insidious crime wave sweeping the British countryside is the subject of new six-part ITV and ITVX drama, Out There,...


13th September 2023
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First-look Pictures for New Thriller Boat Story

The BBC has released first-look images for brand new six-part thriller Boat Story, starring Daisy Haggard (Back to Life, Breeders) and Paterson Joseph (Vigil, Noughts & Crosses), alongside Tchéky Karyo (Baptiste, The Missing), Joanna Scanlan (After Love, Notes on A Scandal), Craig Fairbrass (One Piece, Villain and Muscle) and Phil...


7th September 2023
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First-Look Images Released for UK Thriller, Wilderness

Written and created by BAFTA Breakthrough Brit Marnie Dickens, based on B.E. Jones’ novel of the same name, Wilderness is a twisted love story, where a dream holiday and a supposedly “happily-ever-after” quickly turn into a living nightmare. Prime Video releases first look imagery for Wilderness, a UK Original series,...


18th July 2023
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High-Octane Thriller, Red Eye, to Premiere on ITVX

ITV commissions high-octane thriller, Red Eye, to premiere on ITVX Starring Jing Lusi and Richard Armitage with Lesley Sharp, written by Peter A. Dowling and Jingan Young, directed by Kieron Hawkes and produced by multi award-winning, Bad Wolf Red Eye, told over an adrenaline-filled six parts, is set between an...


22nd June 2023
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New Channel 5 Thriller The Hoard

London, 27th April 2023: Channel 5 today has announced the commission of The Hoard (4 x 60”), a primetime thriller starring Neil Morrissey (Line of Duty, Unforgotten), James Buckley (The Inbetweeners, White Gold) and Fay Ripley (Cold Feet, Suspects). The series will be produced by Seven Seas Films, in association...


27th April 2023
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Filming Commences on Darkly Comic Thriller Passenger

BAFTA-winning Wunmi Mosaku leads the cast of Passenger as filming commences on Northern Sister’s six-part darkly comic thriller for ITVX With BritBox International as co-production partners Filming has begun in Cornholme, North of Manchester, and casting is announced on the brand new 6 x 60 darkly comic thriller, Passenger, produced...


23rd February 2023
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First Look Images of Compelling Crime Thriller, Six Four

Today, ITV released a series of first-look images for the thrilling new crime drama Six Four, starring Kevin McKidd (Grey’s Anatomy, Trainspotting) and Vinette Robinson (Boiling Point, Sherlock, The A-Word) as leads Chris and Michelle O’Neill. The four-part event drama, Six Four, created by BAFTA Scotland Award-winning screenwriter, Gregory Burke...


23rd February 2023
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