{"id":21203,"date":"2022-09-01T11:55:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T09:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1700721"},"modified":"2022-09-01T12:08:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T10:08:08","slug":"jed-mercurio-to-executive-produce-new-itv-crime-thriller-payback","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/jed-mercurio-to-executive-produce-new-itv-crime-thriller-payback\/","title":{"rendered":"Jed Mercurio to executive produce new ITV crime thriller Payback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Minnie Wright\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 01 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>ITV and BritBox International are making a six-part crime thriller for those of us who can\u2019t get enough of police dramas, executive produced by <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/line-of-duty-martin-compston-audition-steve-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Line of Duty<\/a> creator Jed Mercurio.<\/p>\n<p>The series, which will be filmed in Glasgow, Edinburgh and surrounding areas, is described by ITV as \u201ccompelling\u201d and \u201ccharacter-led\u201d, with Morven Christie playing the lead role of Lexie Noble who gets entangled in a perilous police operation to topple a notorious crime lord, played by Ozark and Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power actor Peter Mullan.<\/p>\n<p>Penned by writer Debbie O\u2019Malley (Call the Midwife, All Creatures Great and Small), Payback is set in the suburbs of Edinburgh and meets Lexie when she is unaware that her husband, Jared, has been laundering money for crime lord Cal Morris (Mullan).<\/p>\n<p>The synopsis reads: \u201cJared\u2019s every move is being monitored by financial investigators DC Jibran Khan (Prasanna Puwanarajah) and DCI Adam Guthrie (Derek Riddell), who are determined to use the Noble family to bring Cal Morris to justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA partner in Jared\u2019s business, Lexie is forced into working for Cal, at the same time as the police net inexorably tightens. Soon Lexie finds herself walking a treacherous tightrope between Cal and the police in which her safety, and even her life, are in grave danger.\u201d<\/p> <div>Christie said: \u201cI fell in love with Lexie from the first page, and I\u2019m absolutely delighted to be working with Peter and this wonderful team in my hometown.\u201d<\/div>\n<p><strong>Check out more of our\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Drama<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/tv-listings\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0to see what\u2019s on tonight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The latest issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale now \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/radiotimes.com\/magazine-subscription?utm_term=evergreen-article&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\" data-auth=\"&quot;NotApplicable&quot;\" data-linkindex=\"&quot;0&quot;\">subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0and get the next 12 issues for only \u00a31. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/podcasts\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\" data-auth=\"&quot;NotApplicable&quot;\" data-linkindex=\"&quot;1&quot;\">Radio Times podcast<\/a>\u00a0with Jane Garvey.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Minnie Wright Published: Thursday, 01 September 2022 at 12:00 am ITV and BritBox International are making a six-part crime thriller for those of us who can\u2019t get enough of police dramas, executive produced by Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio. 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