{"id":37206,"date":"2023-09-25T18:31:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1896299"},"modified":"2023-09-25T18:39:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:39:47","slug":"payback-release-date-cast-trailer-and-latest-news-on-itv-drama","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/payback-release-date-cast-trailer-and-latest-news-on-itv-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Payback: release date, cast, trailer and latest news on ITV drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morven Christie and Peter Mullan lead the cast. <\/p>

By David Craig\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 25 September 2023 at 16:31 PM<\/p>

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The shady world of financial crime is to be explored in a new drama from ITV, which stars Morven Christie as a widowed accountant caught in the middle of a cat-and-mouse game.<\/p>\n

Lexie Noble (Christie) is devastated when her husband is killed in an apparently random attack on the street, which appears to be a planned and calculated hit when dark secrets come to light.<\/p>\n

She discovers that her late partner had been in business with some very dangerous individuals, with crime boss Cal Morris (Peter Mullan) being chief among them.<\/p>\n

Soon, Lexie is torn between two sides, with Cal promising answers about her husband\u2019s grim fate, while a specialist police squad seek to prevent him evading justice once again. Which side holds the security she needs?<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s everything you need to know about Payback.<\/p>\n

Payback release date<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Payback premieres on ITV1 at 9pm on Wednesday 4th October 2023<\/strong>. Episodes will also be available on ITVX and BritBox.<\/p>\n

There are six episodes in the first season.<\/p>

Payback cast<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Peter Mullan as Cal Morris in Payback.<\/span><\/figcaption> HTM Television for ITV<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Morven Christie leads the cast of Payback as widowed accountant and mother Lexie Noble. Her previous crime drama credits include The Bay<\/a> and Grantchester<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s quite hardened,\u201d said Christie. \u201cShe\u2019s found herself in this life that on one level she\u2019s built for herself but on another she\u2019s kind of an alien in it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this family that she\u2019s built with Jared she has this idealistic, beautiful, loving home life, but outside of that she\u2019s really quite closed-off to the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe doesn\u2019t really trust people, so when this starts to happen at the beginning of the show she plummets back into this survivalist, trust-no-one mode.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peter Mullan co-stars as her fearsome nemesis Cal Morris; a gangster whose calm persona masks an inner brutality. The Scottish talent recently starred in Mum, Westworld<\/a> and The Underground Railroad.<\/p>\n

The Payback cast also includes Prasanna Puwanarajah (The Crown<\/a>) as DC Jibran Khan, who is leading an exhaustive investigation into the financial crimes of Morris alongside DCI Adam Guthrie (Derek Riddell).<\/p>\n

Puwanarajah said of his role: \u201cHe\u2019s ambitious in a strange, secret way and he wants his line of work \u2013 his particular corner of policing \u2013 to be recognised as having value over busting down doors. I think he\u2019s got a secret ego.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is Payback about?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Prasanna Puwanarajah as DC Jibran Khan in Payback.<\/span><\/figcaption> HTM Television for ITV<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

In true Jed Mercurio fashion \u2013 this series is executive produced<\/a> by the Line of Duty<\/a> creator \u2013 Payback kicks off with a shocking death that throws an individual\u2019s life into chaos and points to a larger conspiracy.<\/p>\n

Lexie Noble is left devastated when her husband is stabbed to death on the street, with more turmoil to come as it emerges he was involved in covering up financial crime.<\/p>\n

The ITV synopsis reads: \u201cWith an idyllic family lifestyle in the suburbs of Edinburgh, Lexie is unaware her husband, Jared, has been laundering Cal Morris\u2019 illegal earnings on a vast scale.<\/p>\n

\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

\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>\n

Payback trailer<\/strong><\/h2>\n

You can watch the debut trailer<\/a> for ITV\u2019s Payback below:<\/p>\n