ITV & BritBox Int’l board crime thriller ‘Payback’ from Mercurio’s HTM Television

Jed Mercurio

UK comcaster ITV has ordered Payback, a new crime thriller from Jed Mercurio’s HTM Television.

BritBox International are on board as co-production partners for the six-part series and will be the exclusive home to the show in the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway.

Debbie O’Malley who is known for her work on Call The Midwife, Humans and Harlots, has created the series, which will be filmed in Glasgow, Edinburgh and surrounding areas.

Mercurio will executive produce the series, alongside Madonna Baptiste, Debbie O’Malley and Diederick Santer on behalf of BritBox International.

Payback follows Lexie Noble, played by Morven Christie (The Bay, The A Word), as she becomes entangled in a perilous police operation to topple a notorious crime lord, Cal Morris, played by Peter Mullan (The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings of Power, Ozark).

With an idyllic family lifestyle in the suburbs of Edinburgh, Lexie is unaware her husband, Jared, has been laundering Cal Morris’ illegal earnings on a vast scale. Jared’s 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.

A partner in Jared’s 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.

“Working with Debbie has been a joy, and everyone at HTM is proud to bring her thrillingly propulsive crime series to screen.  We are very excited to announce a stellar line up of acting talent and pleased to be working with immensely talented directors and production team,” commented Mercurio and Baptiste.